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As Oregon's Assisted Suicide Deaths Double, Advocates Push to Expand to Mentally Incompetent & Deny Spoon-Feeding
Charlotte Lozier Institute | March 12, 2018.
CLI Expert: Oregon's 20-year-old law "tailor-made to conceal, not reveal, abuses" Washington, D.C. – A new report by Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) Associate Scholar Richard Doerflinger, M.A. finds that deaths by assisted suicide in Oregon nearly doubled in just four years, with 143 assisted suicide deaths occurring in 2017 compared to 73 in 2013. […]
Oregon's Assisted Suicides: The Up-to-Date Reality in 2017
Richard Doerflinger, M.A. | March 1, 2018.
To view this paper as a PDF, see: Oregon's Assisted Suicides: The Up-to-Date Reality in 2017 In February 2018 the Oregon Health Authority released its latest annual report on legally authorized physician-assisted suicides, covering deaths that occurred in 2017.[1] This provides a renewed opportunity to test the constantly repeated claim of the advocacy group […]
New York Court Rules there is no "Right-to-Die"
Andrea Arellano | October 11, 2017.
This September, a New York State court unanimously decided on an assisted suicide case and upheld state prohibitions on the practice of physician assisted suicide. The plaintiffs in Myers v Schneiderman consisted of patients with terminal diagnoses who, along with euthanasia-rights advocates, sought the establishment of a "right-to-die" with a physician's aid by challenging the […]
Canada May Make Mentally Ill Subject to Assisted Suicide
Tim Bradley | May 15, 2017.
Just two years ago, Canada's Supreme Court decriminalized physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia in its decision in Carter v. Canada. Now Canada is considering explicitly creating eligibility for PAS and euthanasia to those suffering from mental illnesses.
A Reality Check on Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Richard Doerflinger, M.A. | April 13, 2017.
In short, despite a thoroughly inadequate reporting system designed to cover up rather than reveal problems, Oregon shows exactly the problems that critics predicted: No meaningful protection against coercion, influence by others on patients with depression and dementia, an expansion beyond imminently dying patients, and a road toward active euthanasia.
The Effect of Legalizing Assisted Suicide on Palliative Care and Suicide Rates: A Response to Compassion and Choices
The leading national organization promoting legalization of physician-assisted suicide, "Compassion & Choices" (formerly known as the Hemlock Society), has distributed a December 2016 "Medical Aid in Dying Fact Sheet" in various state legislatures around the country to persuade them to approve what they call "medical aid in dying."
Lessons from the Netherlands: Proceed with Caution
Tim Bradley | January 31, 2017.
The doctor asked the elderly Dutch woman's family members to hold her down while the fatal dose was administered. The woman was suffering from dementia and had previously affirmed that she wanted to be euthanized "at the right time," but the determination of the "right time" for her to die was apparently made without her consultation.
Q&A with the Scholars: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Richard Doerflinger, M.A. | January 30, 2017.
Richard Doerflinger, M.A., is a Public Policy Fellow with the University of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture and an Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. In this interview, he discusses physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Proposal to Expand Euthanasia in the Netherlands
Tim Bradley | October 20, 2016.
In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to decriminalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) for patients who meet criteria set forth by the law, such as that they endure "unbearable" suffering with "no prospect of improvement." Now the Dutch government is pushing to expand eligibility to include individuals who have no medical condition but nevertheless feel that their life is completed.
Assisted Suicide Considered in the Nation's Capital
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | October 4, 2016.
On October 5, the District of Columbia's Committee on Health and Human Services (HHS) will mark-up and vote on a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide. The so-called "Death with Dignity Act" (Bill 21-0038) would permit D.C. adult residents to request and be prescribed drugs to end their lives, if they are given a prognosis of six months or less to live. Last year, during a hearing on the legislation, the Director of D.C.'s Department of Health testified in staunch opposition as the executive witness, stating that the bill would "catapult the District into unchartered territories."
Oregon Health Report: Assisted Suicide Deaths at an All-Time High in 2015
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | March 14, 2016.
According to the annual report from Oregon's Public Health Division released in February, 132 people died from assisted suicide in the state – more people than in any of the 17 previous years and at a 26 percent increase from 2014.
Most individuals who died by assisted suicide were 65 years or older, either had no insurance or government insurance, and were not currently married.
States Consider Assisted Suicide in 2016 as New JAMA Study Raises Concerns
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | February 23, 2016.
Already this year, at least eight states are considering bills to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Of these, Colorado, Maryland, and Utah have renamed their bills, formerly titled "Death with Dignity," as "End of Life Options" bills – the name under which California legalized assisted suicide last October.
Yet, the deceptive title, which now eliminates all reference to death, seemingly seeks both to legalize and normalize assisted suicide as "just another medical option." A new study published last week in JAMA Psychiatry, however, raises afresh ongoing concerns with assisted suicide, especially as it relates to those with mental illness or distress.
Assisted Suicide at the Polls: Risks & Rewards Associated with Voting to Legalize Assisted Suicide vs. Maintaining the Status Quo
Charlotte Lozier Institute | January 19, 2016.
By Jacqueline H. Abernathy, Ph.D.
This academic paper analyzes the significance of a legislator's position in favor of assisted suicide. In particular, the paper looks at the risk associated with support for legalization of assisted suicide on subsequent re-election. This original work comes from the Department of Social Sciences at Tarleton State University, written by Dr. Jacqueline C. Harvey, a political science faculty member. This version of the paper is a conference abstract that was presented at the 2016 Southern Political Science Association Conference. The full version of the paper will be published in an appropriate academic journal at a later date.
Germany Bans "Business-like Assisted Suicide," But New Regulation Reminds Us: Killing Can Never Be Safe
Charlotte Lozier Institute | November 24, 2015.
Switzerland has an unlikely tourist attraction — one where those who visit never leave — and it draws Germans to it more than visitors of any other nationality. It is called the Dignitas clinic, and Germans represent 44 percent of foreign-nationals paying the staff to help them commit suicide. This is more than double the next most common nationality of suicide tourists, British citizens, who constitute 21 percent of the euthanasia clinic's international business. Death as a paid service is such a concern to the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom that both have recently voted on legislation to ban this practice. Britain overwhelmingly rejected killing outright this September with a vote of 330 to 118 against legalizing assisted suicide.
Germany, however, banned assisted suicide, but only when operated as a business.
A Plea for True Compassion: Against Assisted Suicide
Charlotte Lozier Institute | September 15, 2015.
On September 11, California legislators passed Assembly Bill X2-15, the "End of Life Option Act," which legalizes physician-assisted suicide. If the bill is not vetoed by California Governor Jerry Brown within 31 days of its passage, the bill will become state law. Here is an open letter written to Gov. Brown by CLI Associate Scholar Dr. Jacqueline Harvey, Ph.D. urging him to veto the bill.
California Assisted Suicide Bill Passes Assembly during National Suicide Prevention Week
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | September 10, 2015.
September 6 to 12 is National Suicide Prevention Week, and yet almost as if in a cruel joke, the California legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. Just yesterday, the "End of Life Options Act" (AB X2-15) passed the State Assembly by a vote of 44-35.
The bill now goes to the Senate for a vote this Friday, where it is expected to pass since the Senate passed a very similar assisted suicide bill earlier this year. That earlier bill stalled in committee. If the current measure passes, it would take effect in 31 days unless Governor Jerry Brown vetoes it. The Governor has not made any public statement on the bill, except that he was displeased at its introduction into his special session on healthcare financing.
California's Assisted Suicide Bill Revived in Special Session
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | September 1, 2015.
In mid-August, California lawmakers announced a second attempt to legalize assisted suicide this year. In July, a nearly identical bill, SB 128, died in the Health Committee. The proposed legislation, now revived as Assembly Bill X2-15 (the End of Life Option Act), was introduced during a special legislative session on healthcare financing, which will allow it to bypass the previous committee in which it stalled.
Last Thursday, AB X2-15 which was introduced into the special session by Assemblywoman Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), was referred to the Public Health and Developmental Services Committee. This 13-member committee is a smaller health panel than the original health committee in which the bill died, and does not include the handful of Democratic Members who opposed the assisted suicide bill in July.
Testimony of William Toffler, M.D. before the D.C. Committee on Health and Human Services against Assisted Suicide
Charlotte Lozier Institute | August 11, 2015.
On July 10, 2015 the District of Columbia Committee on Health and Human Services held a public hearing on proposed legislation B21-0038, named the "Death with Dignity" bill. Dr. William L. Toffler, M.D., National Director of Physicians for Compassionate Care, and a practicing physician in Oregon for over 35 years, testified in opposition to the bill.
California's Assisted Suicide Bill Dies in 2015
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | July 13, 2015.
Last Tuesday, a proposed bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California was shelved by its primary authors due to lack of support, and is unlikely to be voted on this year. Senate Bill 128, which passed the state Senate last month, would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill individuals seeking to die. Democratic state Senators Bill Monning and Lois Wolk, who authored SB 128, pulled the bill from the Assembly Health Committee's schedule of hearings Tuesday after it became clear that enough Assembly Members would not support it to allow passage. Among the opposed Members were a number of Latino Democrats, making up about a third of the committee, who spoke against the bill in the context of their personal experiences.
PRESS RELEASE: New Paper Warns Against Expansion of Physician-Assisted Suicide in the U.S.
Charlotte Lozier Institute | April 28, 2015.
As an increasing number of states weigh the legalization of physician-assisted suicide, a new paper released by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) elaborates the arguments against the practice, citing numerous abuses. Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith examines how assisted suicide impacts the states and countries where it has been legalized, particularly legalization's effect on medical ethics and patient care.
Assisted Suicide Is Not Compassion
In the United States as of March 2015, numerous bills to legalize assisted suicide have been introduced into as many as 25 state legislatures. In this timely paper, Wesley J. Smith examines the subject of assisted suicide and demonstrates how it is distinct from other medical end-of-life care. The paper outlines in detail the abuses of legal assisted suicide and euthanasia laws in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland as well as in the state of Oregon.
Study: More Than 1,000 Deaths "Hastened without Patient's Explicit Request" in Belgium
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | April 10, 2015.
In 2011, doctors gave then-22-year-old Matt Davis a 10 percent chance of ever waking up from his coma. After suffering a severe traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle accident, the doctors advised his wife of only seven months, Danielle Josey Davis, to end his life support. "They said if it was them, they'd pull the plug. That's what they'd want their family to do," Danielle Davis told ABC News this week. Three months later, her husband awoke from the coma. "I wasn't going to give up," she wrote on their GoFundMe page.
The hopeful outcome for the Davis family stands in stark contrast to a troubling new report on end-of-life practices in Belgium, where euthanasia has been legal since 2002. According to the report published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), potentially more than one thousand deaths in Belgium were "hastened [by a doctor] without an explicit request from the patient"…
Canada's Assisted Suicide Ruling Opens a "Pandora's Box"
On February 5, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) voted unanimously to strike down the blanket prohibition on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia that was in place since 1992. The ruling of Carter v. Canada is historic in that it would permit assisted suicide for psychological illness as well as physical.
Because the SCC has not defined or limited what can be considered "psychological suffering," many are concerned that the subjective language of the ruling makes it vulnerable to abuses. The closest "definition" for either psychological or physical conditions is that it be "grievous and irremediable (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition."
Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Existing Criminal Prohibition on Assisted Suicide
Andrea Mrozek | February 6, 2015.
In a decision today with serious international ramifications, Canada's highest court has overturned an absolute ban on assisted suicide/euthanasia and has given Parliament one year to create a "stringently limited, carefully monitored system of exceptions."
The decision was unanimous, 9-0, and it should be viewed as a victory for advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The ruling chisels away at a prior understanding in Canadian law of human life—even difficult or painful life—as sacred.
In the policy interplay between the United States and Canada, Americans can expect that "right-to-die" activists will be very motivated to use this Canadian case as an example, just as Canadian activists pointed to the "success" of "aid-in-dying" laws in Washington and Oregon.
Assisted Suicide in International Spotlight: Swiss Society Numbers Up, Australia Suspends Physician
Genevieve Plaster, M.A. | August 18, 2014.
Last week, an assisted suicide organization in Switzerland named Exit made the news with a report of an anomalous growth in membership. According to its vice president, a record number of about 60 to 100 new applicants poured in daily this July and August, instead of the expected lag in applications due to summer travel. All told, […]
Quebec Legalizes Euthanasia, Compromises Conscience
Nora Sullivan, M.P.A | June 10, 2014.
Late last week, a radical new Euthanasia bill passed into law by a free vote in the National Assembly in Quebec. The bill, Bill 52, passed Thursday afternoon, by a margin of 94 to 22 with no abstentions.
Belgium Expands Euthanasia Law to Include Children
Nora Sullivan, M.P.A | December 13, 2013.
On Thursday, the Belgian Parliament voted by a significant majority to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill children. The new legislation will extend the existing euthanasia law in Belgium which decriminalized the practice for adults. The law will also legalize the practice to adults suffering from dementia.
Vermont Legislature Passes Assisted Suicide
Nora Sullivan, M.P.A | May 15, 2013.
On Monday night, state lawmakers in Vermont approved an assisted suicide bill which will make Vermont the fourth state in the union to legalize assisted suicide. Governor Peter Shumlin (D) has said that he plans on signing the bill within a week. Governor Shumlin has stated that legalizing assisted suicide "gives Vermonters who are suffering […]
Assisted Suicide Effort Defeated in Connecticut
Nora Sullivan, M.P.A | April 10, 2013.
This past Friday, disability rights and others working against an effort to legalize assisted suicide in the state of Connecticut, were able to successfully stop the momentum of this bill for the rest of the legislative session.
American Nurses Association Opposes Assisted Suicide
Nora Sullivan, M.P.A | November 1, 2012.
The American Nurses Association has released a draft statement which comes out firmly against nurses' participation in assisted suicide and euthanasia. The American Nurses Association is a national organization which works to advance "the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and […]
Massachusetts' "Death with Dignity" Initiative: Questions Regarding Question 2
Charlotte Lozier Institute | October 23, 2012.
The 2012 "Act Relative to Death with Dignity" goes before Massachusetts voters on November 6. Question 2 asks voters directly whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or uphold existing state statutes. If voters affirm Question 2, Massachusetts would join Oregon, Washington and Montana as the only states in the U.S. to allow this practice. Recent studies on PAS in these states paint a revealing portrait of what would transpire in Massachusetts if voters approve Question 2. However, unlike citizens of Oregon who passed the first "Death with Dignity Act" in 1997, voters in Massachusetts have the benefit of learning the actual outcomes of such legislation in other states. Voters now have access to numerous studies that both vindicate opponents' predictions about PAS and present even more concerns.
Assisted Suicide in Oregon: Evidence of Missed Evaluation for Depression
Eugene C. Tarne | May 21, 2012.
As required by law, the Public Health Department of the Oregon Health Authority has released its annual report for 2011 on physician-assisted suicides under that state's Death with Dignity Act (DWDA). The 1997 law required physicians involved in an assisted suicide to file a number of standardized forms, providing information on such particulars as sex, age, race […]
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TPD Vehicle Crashes into Serenity Coffee and Kava Bar after Civilian Vehicle Pulls Out in Front of It
By Cristi McKee
TALLAHASSEE, Fla — On October 28, 2020, around the 10:00 p.m. hour, a Tallahassee Police Department vehicle hit Serenity Coffee and Kava Bar, located at 915 Railroad Ave near the Florida State University campus.
The Tallahassee Police Department stated on Twitter that a Honda Civic was traveling west on All Saints Street toward Railroad Avenue, and came to a complete stop. The driver continued forward into the intersection and pulled out in front of a marked TPD patrol vehicle that was traveling north on Railroad Avenue in response to a call. The TPD patrol vehicle struck the Honda Civic, then hit the side of the Serenity Coffee and Kava Bar building.
On Oct. 28, just before 10 p.m. a Honda Civic was traveling west on All Saints Street approaching Railroad Avenue. The driver came to a complete stop at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and All Saints Street.
— Tallahassee Police (@TallyPD) October 29, 2020
In a video posted on Twitter by Ally Chester, who works at Serenity, captioned, "So a cop just drove through where I work. 2020 is a whole new breed of a year. #Because2020," a TPD vehicle can be seen in front of a hole at the right side edge of the building. Additionally, structure debris can be seen inside the building.
Chester, who was off from work that day and was patronizing the shop, was inside of the building when the vehicle crashed into it. Another vehicle was damaged during the crash, and both vehicles were towed from the site, totaled. No injuries were reported.
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— Daddy Frank (@thedaddyfrank) October 29, 2020
Currently, the investigation is still active. Anyone who witnessed the crash and has not spoken to a TPD office is asked to please contact the department with any information.
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, Serenity will be closed for today. We thank you for your patience and continued support," the coffee and kava bar said on their Instagram story. The shop will remain closed over the weekend as they work to repair the building.
In terms of how the community may support Serenity, Chester says, "All we can ask is that our community comes back and supports us once we open again. We are a local business and it's the safest, most loving space I have found in Tallahassee."
The Tally Wire has reached out to Serenity Coffee and Kava Bar and is waiting to hear back for more information.
This is an developing story. Check back for more details soon.
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category Juice will return the name (Apple) and category Meat will return Beef!
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Quinoa alone does not have actually countless taste, and it can be rather bland or even prepared corretcly. I recently had one of the best quinoa dishes I've ever tasted: the "Peruvian Salad" through the Brazilian Steakhouse Texas de Brazil. This version utilizes purple quinoa, difficult to find in standard supermarkets, but obtainable in the majority foods area at Whole Foods marketplace. This dish comes compliments of Evandro Caregnato, Culinary Director at Tx de Brazil.
Cook the quinoa in boiling-water for about quarter-hour until tender not mush.
At the same time, combine the vinegar, raspberry puree and sugar. Set-aside.
Utilizing a fine mesh colander, drain water and let the quinoa cool.
Once quinoa is cool, include the vinegar mix, scallion and cranberries. Combine all ingredients with salt-and-pepper to taste.


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Confirmed: Fernández de Kirchner to face embezzlement trial on February 26
Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will face trail on February 26. It will be the first time she will stand trial, despite a number of corruption charges against her.
Source: http://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/confirmed-fernandez-de-kirchner-to-face-embezzlement-trial.phtml
Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will stand trail for the first time on February 26, after a court rejected her bid to postpone proceedings over alleged embezzlement against her and other former government officials.
Senator Fernández de Kirchner's legal team claimed the trail should not go ahead until the full investigation had run its course and a 10-day cooling-off period had concluded.
The affair will play out throughout most of 2019 as Fernández de Kirchner and her allies begin defining their candidacies for the October election.
Her alleged frontman Lázaro Báez, former Planning minister Julio de Vido and former Public Works secretary José López are among the defendants in the so-called "Road Works" scandal, which involves alleged embezzlement of public funds through tender processes for road words in Fernández de Kirchner's home province of Santa Cruz.
Federal Oral Court 2 rejected the defence's request on the grounds the investigation was sufficiently complete for the trail to begin, and despite a Procedural Criminal Code article which indicates a trial should not begin until 10 days have passed since the conclusion of an investigation.
'ROAD WORKS'
The trial is expected to last eight months. However, most observers believe it will last longer and run throughout the October 2019 election campaign, despite a schedule of two hearing per week.
The scandal was investigated by Judge Julián Ercolini and prosecutors Gerardo Pollicita and Ignacio Mahique, following an initial complaint about alleged irregularities in the granting of tenders for public works projects in Santa Cruz province to Báez's Grupo Austral firm.
The case is emblematic not only for being the first to put Fernández de Kirchner in the dock but also because it was the first to provide enough evidence to charge the Senator for corruption.
The judges who will decide hers and her codefendants' fate are Jorge Tassara, Jorge Gorini and Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu. The trial prosecutor is Diego Luciani.
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A Taste of Tunisia Comes to Williamsburg
By Mary Emily O'Hara |&nbspJanuary 31, 2014 11:48am
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WILLIAMSBURG — When Anis and Karim Khemiri decided to open a restaurant in Williamsburg in mid-December, they thought of their mother.
The brothers, who hail from Tunisia, were raised on their mom's traditional comfort food, and wanted to share those recipes with others at their new Grand Street restaurant La Goulette — named after a famous port in the capital city of Tunis.
The walls of the 159 Grand St. restaurant, which the brothers opend with Karim's wife Mellie earlier this month, are painted the same aqua blue as the waters of his home country. Scattered among the 32 seats are pieces of Tunisian art and photographs of the white stone buildings and blue seas that make the country a popular vacation spot for Europeans.
Though Tunisian food offers some familiar dishes — such as hummus and babaganoush — Anis Khemiri stresses that the difference is in the spices.
"We have a customer, a Lebanese woman," he said. "Who loves our hummus. She said, 'What did you do to the hummus?'"
The restaurant imports Harissa and other special spices directly from Tunisia, to distinguish their Kefta kabab, falafel, and Shawarma from standard Middle Eastern fare.
They also offer a Tunisian specialty, the lamb sausage known as merguez, as well as a variety of salads, fresh squeezed juices, and the honey-soaked desserts baklava and kunafa.
The Khemiri brothers, who moved to the U.S. in 1997, have traveled back and forth between Williamsburg and Tampa, Fla., where they run a Mediterranean restaurant focused on Italian food — Tunisia's direct neighbor to the north.
In Tunis, Anis Khemiri said, "We have the Italians, the French, the North Africans. It's 3,500 years of history."
Some of that history is personal. The family's grandfather ran a small restaurant back in the home country, which they hope to emulate.
"You go into a lot of falafel places, it's fast food. They just throw it at you," Anis Khemiri said. "Here is upscale food. You sit, drink the mint tea, you're not rushed."
Their committment to a relaxed atmosphere is reflected in the business plan as well. "We do things with passion," Anis Khemiri said. "We aren't rushed to be millionaires, we just want to work have the right food for people."
Since its opening La Goulette has been beseiged with delivery orders via Seamless, Anis Khemiri said that customers have been coming back night after night.
"We have customers who eat here now seven days a week," he said.
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I just started a garden at my college. The soil here is clay, not just clay-y but pretty much just clay. Intending to start a bed this spring I mixed some potting soil (left over from a friends container gardening endeavor) and some compost. I then planted some beans, primarily to put nitrogen in the soil (maybe with some luck I'll get some beans before winter kills them). I'll soon have some chicken manure aging to mix in for the spring, and some compost going. I was wondering if anybody had some suggestions for how to improve the soil.
You're definitely on the right track toward improving your soil. You need to add organic materials. Check out our Compost forum for detailed information.
I am in Australia but there are some good websites you can log onto that have lots of information on soil preparation. 1. ABC TV Gardening Australia and 2. sandisgardenpatch. There you will find lots of helpful tips. Soil preparation is the same all around the world. Also suggest you get some gypsum and incorporate it into you soil. It will improve the drainage. Not a good idea to use old potting mix as it might contain disease. But if you make a compost heap, you can put it in that and kill the diseases by getting the temperature up over 60C. You do that by turning it regularly with your garden fork.
Once the beans have grown to about 50cm, treat them like a green manure crop and dig them in. Hard I know if you want to eat the beans.
Interested in growing vegetables, annuals, herbaceous perennials and succulents. Love historic gardens and am involved with the Friends of La Trobe's Cottage in Melbourne in the garden group.
One thing you should do is monitor the PH level of your soil.
Chicken manure is very acidic, you may need to add some other ingredients to balance out the PH.
There were a few things I was mistaken/unclear about. First, turns out my manure source actually has horse manure not chicken. Also, the potting soil my friend used wasn't actually in pots. He filled a 4x8 raised bed with it... don't ask. Just wondering how those differences would change your recommendations.
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Стефанія Олександрівна Рашківська ( 1 січня 1931, с. Пасіки, Томашівський повіт, Люблінське воєводство, Польща) — Герой Соціалістичної Праці. Почесний ветеран України.

Народилася 1 січня 1931 року в с. Пасіки Томашівського повіту Люблінського воєводства, Польща. Трудову діяльність розпочала у 1945 році в колгоспі «Маяк» Струсівського району Тернопільської області. Очолювала ланку. У 1949 році удостоєна звання Героя Соціалістичної Праці. Навчалася у сільськогосподарській школі з підготовки голів колгоспу у Чернівцях. У 1952—1955 роках заступниця голови виконкому — голова районної планової комісії Струсівської районної ради депутатів трудящих. З 1955 року — агроном машинно-тракторної станції (МТС) у с. Клішківці Хотинського району Чернівецької області, згодом була обрана заступницею голови виконкому Хотинської районної ради. Працювала агрономом-ентомологом Клішковецької МТС, агроном районної сільськогосподарської інспекції, завідувачкою контрольно-насіннєвої лабораторії, начальницею Хотинської районної державної насіннєвої інспекції.

Громадська діяльність
Обиралась депутатом Струсівської та Хотинської районних рад, членом Всесоюзної ради миру, народним засідателем Верховного суду Української РСР.

Нагороди, відзнаки
 Медаль «Золота Зірка».
 Орден Леніна.
 Медаль «За доблесну працю».
 Медаль «За трудову доблесть»
 Відзнака Ради організації ветеранів України «Почесний ветеран України».

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 Рашківська Стефанія Олександрівна / Юхим Гусар // На обширах часу. Календар січня [Серія "Золоті імена Буковинаи"]. - Чернівці : ВІЦ "Місто", 2022. - С.16-17.
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Народились 1 січня
Народились 1931
Персоналії:Тернопільська область
Персоналії:Чернівецька область
Персоналії:Хотинський район
Герої Соціалістичної Праці
Кавалери ордена Леніна
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Each year at Oracle OpenWorld, new products are introduced and existing ones updated during keynotes and presentations. Along the way, top executives make observations about how IT is changing overall and at customer deployments. This year, the impact of cloud is being felt strongly.
TeamQuest, a global leader in IT capacity planning and performance monitoring, is adding advanced capacity management and application health capabilities for the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The TeamQuest solution is already available for Amazon EC2, and with the addition of Azure, TeamQuest software will now cover the two most popular infrastructure-as-a-service providers, the company said.
Thales, a French multi-national company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vormetric, a provider of data protection solutions in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, for $400 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016.
Being able to keep a database running at peak performance is important for obvious reasons, but it may be surprising how difficult a task that can be. In a recent webinar Joseph McKendrick, lead analyst with Unisphere Research, and Robert Wijnbelt, senior product manager with Dell Software, discussed how to identify, prioritize and resolve database performance problems to ensure peak performance in an ever-changing data landscape.
Tableau is making data analysis more easily accessible with a new application designed to help people see and understand data with just an iPad. "We're all about helping people see and understand their data and with this product what we're doing is extending our reach to even more people. We're also advancing the state of the art of touching your data," said Dave Story, vice president of mobile and strategic growth at Tableau.
What Happens After the EU Ruling on Safe Harbor Data Transfer?
Until the safe harbor agreement between U.S. and Europe was ruled invalid recently in a European court, it was understood that for any European company the U.S. was safe, and the data security in the U.S. was acceptable. But the recent ruling by the European Court of Justice says that is "actually not true," said Andreas Gauger, chief marketing officer and cofounder of Profitbricks, a cloud computing IaaS company. Now, a new agreement will have to be forged between the different entities. "Now that band-aid has been ripped off and the wound is open. Now they have to sit down and finally agree on something."
TIBCO, a provider of integration, analytics and event processing software has introduced two newly built integration solutions designed to give organizations the ability to immediately leverage the cloud to create, test, deploy, and manage enterprise applications at any scale.
As more and more applications, websites, and basic smart home devices ask users permissions for their data, people are starting to wonder where their information is going. The question of privacy, the Internet of Things, and what companies do with an individual's personal information was the subject of two different sessions at Strata + Hadoop World in NYC.
In what is being hailed as the biggest tech merger ever, Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. today formally announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell will acquire EMC. The total transaction is valued at $67 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second or third quarter of Dell's fiscal year which ends February 3, 2017 (within the months of May to October 2016). The industry is going through a "tremendous transformation," with the old style of IT being "pretty quickly disrupted" yet this rapid change is also presenting "incredibly rich" opportunities, said Joe Tucci, chairman and chief executive officer of EMC, during a conference call with media and industry analysts.
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances. The acquisition will enhance IBM's positions in storage and hybrid cloud.
Actiance is teaming up with IBM to integrate the Actiance social communications compliance, archiving and analytics platform into IBM's Information Lifecycle Governance product portfolio. The combined platform enables customers to more effectively address issues related to migrating current technology solutions to the cloud.
Phoenix Software International has released a z/OS application profiler that includes a z/Architecture instruction speed tester, which can determine the relative and actual speed of over 900 hardware instructions.
Compuware Corporation, a mainframe software company, delivered its fourth major release of Topaz—a solution suite intended to help enterprise customers to tap the potential business value of their IBM z Systems. The latest release features Topaz Runtime Visualizer (Topaz RV), which provides visibility into the often-complex interactions between mainframe programs. This visibility helps developers understand, modify and troubleshoot older or poorly documented mainframe code.
Serena Software, a provider of orchestrated application development and release management, announced same-day support for the latest version of IBM's z/OS operating system for all of Serena's z/OS products.
Yellowfin, has launched DashXML - a browser-based Java application to make it easier for customers and software partners to create customized analytical functionality and applications. According to the vendor, DashXML is a flexible framework that communicates with Yellowfin via a web wervices API to expose the functionality of Yellowfin's BI platform - such as reports, filters and security capabilities - while simultaneously providing complete freedom regarding application design, layout and user interaction.
ClearStory Data, a company specializing in bringing business-oriented data intelligence to everyone, introduced new advancements to its Spark-native Intelligent Data Harmonization and blending capabilities that will help make users more self-reliant.
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) software, has released new product versions designed to improve every component of the Noetix operational reporting solution for Oracle E-Business Suite. Now available, NoetixViews 6.5 for Oracle E-Business Suite features incremental regeneration for global views, as well as additional enhancements. Before incremental regeneration, the only option for implementing NoetixViews Workbench customizations was a full regeneration of the views. Incremental regeneration only processes NoetixViews Workbench changes since the last full or incremental regeneration reducing the wait time to minutes so that end users benefit from quicker access to data and faster time to business decisions, requiring fewer resources and less planning from IT.
Oracle has announced Oracle SOA Cloud Service and Oracle API Manager Cloud Service, new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform for Integration. The two cloud services join Oracle's other iPaaS services, including Oracle Integration Cloud, which was announced in June. The two new releases are part of Oracle's ongoing process of augmenting and covering integration use cases to address the variety of different user requirements, according to Amit Zavery, senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Platform. "These are two different offerings for two different use cases."


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Giorgio De Chirico Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story. "To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. " Synopsis Giorgio de Chirico was a pioneer in the revival of Classicism that flourished into a Europe-wide phenomenon in the 1920s. His own interest was likely encouraged by his childhood experiences of being raised in Greece by Italian parents. And, while living in Paris in the 1910s, his homesickness may have led to the mysterious, classically-inspired pictures of empty town squares for which he is best known.
It was work in this style that encouraged him to form the short-lived movement, along with the painter Carlo Carrà. His work in this mode attracted considerable notice, particularly in France, where the Surrealists championed him as a precursor. Key Ideas De Chirico is most famous for the eerie mood and strange artificiality of the cityscapes he painted in the 1910s. Biography. Drones: an eye in the sky | Art and design. When photographer Tomas van Houtryve shows people his picture of a yoga class mid-pose in a San Francisco public park, half see people practising yoga, the other half see people praying. It is this reaction to what drones capture that worries him. "Imagine if all we knew about the way people in Pakistan lead their lives were derived from images of the tops of their heads, taken from 15,000ft (4,500 metres) in the air.
It's bound to be full of uncertainty. Is this the best way to fight a war? " The fact that there were few published photographs of US drone activity had been bothering Van Houtryve. "When I first started looking, they were expensive and difficult to get hold of but they started popping up on Amazon for a more reasonable price," he says. Completing the project was an unnerving experience. The project is called Blue Sky Days, inspired by the testimony of 13-year-old Zubair Rehman at a briefing at Capitol Hill last year.
Child watch: The apps that let parents 'spy' on their kids. Think your kid's being bullied? Or sending sexts? Or dealing drugs? There's an app for that. In the United States, nearly 80% of teenagers own mobile phones. About half of those are smartphones - with access to the internet, games, cameras and social media. That worries many parents. TeenSafe can work as a personal CIA spy for parents. The company urges parents to tell their children they are being monitored, but the app can work covertly and show what kids are posting on social media as well as deleted texts and messages sent via popular apps such as Kik, WhatsApp and Snapchat. "It's absolutely legal for a parent to do this discreetly," says TeenSafe's chief executive Rawdon Messenger. "The real question is, 'Is it justified? ' Boundary alerts Mr Messenger says he believes about half the families who use TeenSafe use it to spy on their kids.
TeenSafe operates in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and is hoping to expand to the UK soon. Stalker apps? 'Blind trust' Extremist Ideas. Tags: counterterrorism | education | law The Counterterrorism and Security Bill 2014-15 has all but completed its swift passage into law. Sponsored by Theresa May and Lord Bates of the Home Office, it promises to expand the state's paranoid reach in predictable ways: new powers to seize passports and bar UK citizens from returning home; a requirement that internet service providers collect data on users; a provision that airlines and rail and shipping companies may have to seek permission from the Home Office to carry certain groups of people.
More novel is the bill's requirement that schools and universities conduct surveillance on their students. Section 25.1 states that education institutions are among the 'specified authorities' – along with councils, prisons, hospitals and police chiefs – that must 'have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism'. The Home Office has published guidance notes on how this duty is to be fulfilled.
Power, Privacy, and the Internet | NYRgallery. On October 30–31, 2013, The New York Review of Books held a conference, "Power, Privacy, and the Internet," at Scandinavia House in New York City, with generous support from The Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo, PEN America, Sarah and Landon Rowland, The Europaeum of Oxford, The Lead Bank of Kansas City, and the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Simon Head, director of programs for The New York Review of Books Foundation, addressed the theme of the conference: The Internet is a transformative technology of our times and it is changing our lives as perhaps nothing else has done since the coming of the telephone, the telegraph, and the mass production automobile a century and more ago.
We are pleased to present the following recordings from the event. Listeners can also stream or download the audio from the Review's account on Soundcloud. Panel I: Governments, Corporations and Hackers: The Internet and Threats to the Privacy and Dignity of the Citizen. Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance. Jim Wilson/The New York Times Federal grants of $7 million, initially intended to help thwart terror attacks at the port in Oakland, Calif., are instead going to a police initiative that will collect and analyze reams of surveillance data.
The new system, scheduled to begin next summer, is the latest example of how cities are compiling and processing large amounts of information, known as big data, for routine law enforcement. And the system underscores how technology has enabled the tracking of people in many aspects of life. The police can monitor a fire hose of social media posts to look for evidence of criminal activities; transportation agencies can track commuters' toll payments when drivers use an electronic pass; and the National Security Agency, as news reports this summer revealed, scooped up telephone records of millions of cellphone customers in the United States. For law enforcement, data mining is a big step toward more complete intelligence gathering. `Security' Coca-Cola Security Camera Ad Encourages Viewers To 'Look At The World A Little Differently' Security cameras capture more than just burglaries, brawls and automobile accidents.
They also capture sweet, everyday moments of people just being, well, people. It's those feel good moments Coca-Cola highlights in a new video advertisement that urges viewers to "look at the world a little differently. " Set to the song "Give A Little Bit," the clip features security camera footage from around the world showing people kissing, dancing, helping the homeless, saving others and, yes, sharing a Coke. A representative from Coca-Cola Latin America explained the spot is meant to elicit those warm, fuzzy feelings.
"We want to remind people that acts of kindness and bravery are taking place around them all the time," Guido Rosales told Media Bistro's Agency Spy. And though some viral ads get a bit corny, CBS' William Goodman admits the clip was a "total feel-good video that actually had this blogger smiling. " What do you think of the clip? MI5's Andrew Parker lives in a different world to the rest of us | Clive Stafford Smith. It has often been said that MI5 operates in a shady, parallel world. Unfortunately, the recent public comments of Sir Andrew Parker, the new head of MI5, makes it all too clear that he does not live in the same world as the rest of us. Thirty years in MI5 have apparently left him a little short on perspective. If one is to believe Parker (as interpreted by the Daily Mail), the Guardian's recent revelations about the security services have "handed a gift to terrorists". Parker claims his is "a highly accountable service".
MI5 is "overseen independently by parliament through the ISC [intelligence and security committee], inspected by two independent commissioners (usually senior judges), held to account on any complaints from the public by a senior and independent tribunal of judges and lawyers … Rightly, these arrangements are tough and testing," he concludes. However, the Guardian has cast light on some worryingly broad snooping by his service. Perhaps all is well in Parker's happy land.
Surveillance secrecy: the legacy of GCHQ's years under cover | Analysis | UK news. GCHQ's headquarters on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA The extent to which GCHQ has tried to guard its secrets for decades was wonderfully illustrated nearly 30 years ago when a former codebreaker wrote about his work during the second world war.
Sir Peter Marychurch, then director of the government's eavesdropping centre, chastised Gordon Welchman, one of the brilliant group of intelligence officers at Bletchley Park, GCHQ's wartime predecessor, for referring to codebreaking successes. Marychurch's intervention provoked a scathing attack from Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, one of Welchman's colleagues. "To suppose that the battles which we had to wage before the birth of the first electronic computer (which must seem to present-day cryptanalysts rather like fighting with bows and arrows) could be relevant to security now is just not credible," he said. GCHQ's cover was first blown in 1976 by an article, The Eavesdroppers, published by the London magazine, Time Out. Why Is the UK Border Agency Racially Profiling People On the Tube? UK Border Agency officers at Kensal Green station.
(Photo via) If you were anywhere near Kensal Green tube station earlier this week, you might have noticed an unusual proliferation of burly cop types doing all the things burly cops usually do. For example, intimidating civilians, grabbing anybody with brown skin and prodding them with their notepads, forbidding people from taking photos of them, talking down to everyone they encountered – you know, all the standard stuff. Even if you missed that party you might be interested to know that these four guys weren't cops at all, they were officials from the much-maligned UK Border Agency, now operating under the Theresa May-approved auspices of the Home Office. It turns out they were there trying to catch illegal immigrants – or, as the widely mocked, disparaged and despised Home Office Twitter account has sought to rebrand them, "#immigrationoffenders".
"My claimant doesn't have an English accent," Naftalin says. The best type of control is the type we enjoy. Differing Views on Privacy Shape Europe's Response to U.S. Surveillance Program. It is too early to say what impact the disclosure of widespread Internet spying in the United States government's Prism program will have on the European public. Not everyone here is as attuned to privacy issues as Mr. Storbeck. But official European reaction, at least, has been loud and angry. The response in Europe is partly based on a political reaction to what is perceived as American superpower arrogance and the secrecy surrounding Prism and its supposed safeguards.
The European response is not uniform, but it is based on tradition, differing philosophies of the law and history, especially in countries that lived under dictatorships, whether fascist or Communist, and where governments remain mistrusted. J. Germany is the country most aggressive in protecting individual privacy. But the Sept. 11 attacks and other acts of terrorism have had an impact in Germany, too. In Britain, where the common law is based on property rights, privacy is "an existential concept," Mr. So Are We Living in 1984? Since last week's revelations of the scope of the United States' domestic surveillance operations, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," which was published sixty-four years ago this past Saturday, has enjoyed a massive spike in sales.
The book has been invoked by voices as disparate as Nicholas Kristof and Glenn Beck. Even Edward Snowden, the twenty-nine-year-old former intelligence contractor turned leaker, sounded, in the Guardian interview in which he came forward, like he'd been guided by Orwell's pen. But what will all the new readers and rereaders of Orwell's classic find when their copy arrives? Is Obama Big Brother, at once omnipresent and opaque? And are we doomed to either submit to the safety of unthinking orthodoxy or endure re-education and face what horrors lie within the dreaded Room 101?
Are we living in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"? "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not simply a cold counterfactual. "And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer." Wearable Video Cameras, for Police Officers. Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage. The following is a guest post by Professor Steve Mann. Read Mann's complete bio at the end of this article for more information.
Digital eye glasses like Google's Project Glass, and my earlier Digital Eye Glass, will transform society because they introduce a two-sided surveillance and sousveillance. Not only will authorities and shops be watching us and recording our comings and goings (surveillance as we know it today), but we will also be watching and recording them (sousveillance) through small wearable computers like Digital Eye Glass. This affects secrecy, not just privacy. As one of the early inventors and developers of wearable computing and reality augmenting and mediating, I was asked by TIME Tech to write about the history and future predictions of these technologies.
Through the Glass Society has entered the era of augmented and augmediated reality. Steve Mann Cell phone view, augmediated reality on iPhone Steve Mann : Antonia Zugaldia / Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons.
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The Arduino Leonardo Ethernet board is based on the ATmega32U4 microcontroller and the new Wiznet W5500 embedded Ethernet controller. The board has 20 digital I/O pins (7 can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analog inputs). Additional features include a 16MHz xtal oscillator, RJ45 connection, micro USB connector, power jack, ICSP header, and a reset button.
The Leonardo ETH differs from the preceding Ethernet board in that the ATmega32u4 has built-in USB communication, eliminating the need for an external USB-to-serial converter. This allows the Leonardo ETH to appear to a connected computer as a mouse and keyboard, in addition to a virtual (CDC) serial / COM port.
The Wiznet W5500 Ethernet chip datasheet can be downloaded here.


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The Cable: Obama takes on… the Yakuza? Obama takes on… the Yakuza?...
Obama takes on… the Yakuza?
The Obama administration slapped new sanctions Thursday against one of Japan's largest organized crime groups, showing more resolve to fight Japanese organized crime than the Japanese government. "Today's action casts a spotlight on key members of criminal organizations that have engaged in a wide range of serious crimes across the globe," said David Cohen, Treasury ...
| February 24, 2012, 2:06 PM
Jake Adelstein
The Obama administration slapped new sanctions Thursday against one of Japan's largest organized crime groups, showing more resolve to fight Japanese organized crime than the Japanese government.
"Today's action casts a spotlight on key members of criminal organizations that have engaged in a wide range of serious crimes across the globe," said David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in announcing sanctions on the Yamaguchi-gumi as well as Kenichi Shinoda, its kumicho ("godfather") and its wakagashira ("deputy godfather") Kiyoshi Takayama. "Today's designations are just the first under our new our sanctions authority to target transnational criminal organizations and isolate them from the global financial system."
The Treasury Department said that Shinoda and Takayama play key roles in directing all Yakuza activities and are involved in international drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, prostitution, fraud, and money laundering.
"Today's action is designed to protect the integrity of the U.S. financial system, to prevent U.S. financial institutions from being used unwittingly to facilitate the unlawful activities of these groups, and to deny the named individuals and entity access to the U.S. economy," Treasury said in its statement.
The sanctions represent the first concrete implementation of an executive order President Barack Obama signed last July promising to go after transnational criminal organizations.
There's only one problem: The Japanese government doesn't seem to be on board. The National Police Agency (NPA), which is in charge of organized crime, has been uncooperative with the U.S. efforts to keep the Yakuza out of the United States and does not share its database of Yakuza bosses and associates with the FBI, DEA, or Homeland Security Investigations (formerly ICE), according to Jake Adelstein, the author of Tokyo Vice, an insider's look at the Yakuza in Japan. The NPA has also rarely acted on the hundreds of tips the United States passes along about child pornography coming out of Japan.
"The Yamaguchi-gumi is the Wal-Mart of organized crime. If you count smaller Yakuza groups under their umbrella, they are more than half of the market of Japan's 79,000 Yakuza members and associates. They also support the DPJ and ruling coalition of Japan," said Adelstein, adding that the Yamaguchi-gumi has ties to Olympus and TEPCO, two firms that operate within the United States.
"The reaction of the Japanese ministry of justice and the National Police Agency to Obama's executive order last year was one of shock and shame. This latest announcement is a slap in the face of Japan, telling them to really do something about their organized crime problem, which is spilling into international waters," he said.
Without help from Japanese officials, it's difficult for the U.S. law enforcement community to get a handle on Yakuza activities. For one thing, only the Japanese government can identify Yakuza officials, because tracking them requires knowing their names, their date of birth, their faces, and the Kanji symbols — Japanese characters — they use to identify themselves.
But in the Japanese system, the Yakuza are legally recognized entities that operate freely and have clear links to banks, legitimate businesses, and leading politicians.
"The Yakuza exists openly in Japan with fanzines and magazines," Adelstein explained. "They are heavily involved in the stock market and there are politicians with known Yakuza ties in national politics."
That kind of institutional corruption crosses borders, bleeding heavily into the U.S. economy. The Japanese police estimate that roughly 40 percent of foreign exchange trading companies in Japan are Yakuza-affiliated.
"With so many Japanese companies invested in the U.S. and with so many American companies investing in the Japanese stock market, which is yakuza infested, it becomes a matter of U.S. national security," Adelstein said. "Because of the yakuza's deep involvement in the Japanese economy and Japan's economic ties with the U.S., the actions of the Yakuza effect the U.S. economy, therefore it's not just a Japanese problem."
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Get full access to all 13,364 pages that make up the British officers' diaries from World War 1, 1914-1919 collection.
The First World War involved soldiers of different ranks as well as non-combatants. A range of these diaries are included in this collection. The diaries reveal what life was like for the average British soldier in the Battle of the Somme and later battles of Ypres. The battles of Loos, Arras, Vimy Ridge, and Bethune are also covered. The letters home will have been censored by the army, how much was removed depended on the censor. Tactical information and details of military training often remain as the main concern was morale. Soldiers' diaries are divided by rank. The 'others' diaries are from a chaplain and a civilian in occupied France.
These diaries are arranged by the military ranks of their authors. From officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, others including chaplains, and allied prisoners of war.
The diaries from officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates focus on two conflict areas. The Battle of the Somme was a core focal point; as were the Second and Third Battles of Ypres.
The non-combatant diaries in the 'Others' diaries' group includes those of a priest and of a French civilian in occupied France. The priest's diary describes how his role evolved from mourner and carer to moral support.
The French civilian's diary has been translated into English and typed in that language. His diary describes the effects of the conflict taking place around him between May and August 1916.


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Q: Which web server software to use I have VPS with 3 websites hosted.
Only one is a high traffic with around 3000 visits/day.
VPS Specs
CPU: 2,3GHz
RAM: 512MB
SSD: 20GB

I configure it to use 2GB swap with swappiness 3, so it will use it only when RAM is critical.
Swap is almost non-used because everything consumes about 280-350MB RAM on medium load.
Currently I use LAMP -
Linux Debian 7 Wheezy AMD64
Apache2
MySQL
PHP

Other are Postfix, Webmin, dove-cot, APF Firewall, DDoS Deflate.
It is run via a Cloudflare network for best performance.

Now, I heard good things about ngnix and Light-httpd.
Which one I should choose, or to stay with Apache?
Performance are not very good with a much users online, If I see good, fu*king Apache uses separated sub-process for every visitors online? That's ridiculous.
So please, recommend be the best one to use on current server? Thank you in advance!
Please note that I use a lot subdomains, so I need that function.

A: check the following white paper http://www.whisperdale.net/11-nginx-vs-cherokee-vs-apache-vs-lighttpd.html

A: You should monitor the server first.Which process is taking up resources? Apache? My guess is that MySQL would be the culprit if lots of queries are being made, or misconfigured.
Also, consider upgrade to at least 1Gb, most VPS provides will not charge that much for such a difference (if they do, change provider).


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Futuristic solutions demoed at water tech farms
By Candace Krebs for Ag Journal
Offering a preview of the future of farming on the water-strapped plains that overlie the dwindling Ogallala Aquifer, real working farms that double as Kansas water technology farms showed off some of the latest soil moisture probes, canopy sensors and other technological wonders at field days held across the region in late summer and early fall.
At a water tech field day in Goodland, students and faculty at Northwest Kansas Technical College displayed and demonstrated a drone — not the flimsy kind you can buy at Walmart, but a six-foot wide machine weighing around 50 pounds equipped with "see and spray" capabilities.
It is believed to be the first and only drone of its kind licensed for use in Kansas, according to operator Mark Dickey, who offers a popular adult education class on drones at Northwest Tech.
"There's been more interest in it than I thought we'd have," Dickey said of the 8-week course, adding that he'll probably add a second session this fall to keep up with demand.
Operating a drone doesn't require a pilot's license, like Dickey has, but definitely should include an introductory class on how to safely and legally operate one, he said.
"We're trying to spread the word so people are more cognizant of what the laws are," he said.
In Goodland, area farmers had a chance to view other examples of see-and-spray technology, along with the latest moisture sensing equipment, data capturing software and computer mapping programs.
Drones provide a handy eye-in-the-sky that is now being used to inspect wind turbines, oil and gas lines, and roads and bridges, Dickey said.
For farmers, they can aid in the adoption of increasingly sophisticated irrigation systems, he added.
Crop sensors that are bolted to the sprinkler to measure canopy temp and water stress are being replaced in some cases by thermal imagery using drones.
Inspecting sprinkler valves is another application where drones are useful.
"Farmers with dozens of sprinklers like this can't physically check each one, but you can do that with a drone," Dickey said.
The necessity of checking and repairing individual nozzles, sensors and valves is one of the hindrances that has held back wider adoption of variable rate irrigation technology, according to Josh Nienhueser, a Nebraska-based territory manager for Valley Irrigation.
He estimates that only about 10 to 15 percent of irrigated farmers use variable rate technology, but added it is much higher — closer to half — among those with auto-reverse capabilities on their pivots.
Variable rate technology allows farmers to control speed and flow rates, based on computerized precision ag prescriptions that have been customized for each field.
"The biggest opportunity is where we have extremes in soil types within the same field," he said.
By controlling individual spray nozzles, farmers can optimize inputs, dispensing not only water but also nitrogen fertilizer and even some pesticides, in very precise doses, he added.
As regulations rise and water levels go down, "that could be huge down the road," he said.
The technology is also getting more user-friendly for adjusting on the fly, he said. Farmers can now use a cellphone app to reduce prescribed irrigation rates following a rain, he said, citing one example.
"It will continue to improve, and we'll get the cost down on it," he said. "It also becomes more useful as we start to get better quality data."
Water tech farms like the one at Goodland are part of an innovative program that allows farmers to participate in having the latest precision ag technology installed on their farm in exchange for hosting educational events. The program receives financial backing, oversight and coordination from the Kansas Water Office and Kansas State University.
Armando Zarco, a water resource planner with the Kansas Water Office, oversees 15 water technology farms that extend from St. Joseph in the northeast to Garden City and Liberal in the southwest.
Setting up the farms requires a three-year initial agreement. New farms are welcome to apply to join the program but need to do it soon, because next year's contracts will be finalized around Thanksgiving time, Zarco said.
Each year the Kansas Water Office compiles a detailed report that gets uploaded to the website for all to review.
"We are always looking for new technology and new vendors to bring in," Zarco said. "We are open to making this better and improving on it."
Water tech farms are one example of how the eight states that share the aquifer are exploring ways to conserve groundwater while maintaining vibrant agricultural economies. Since 2018, those efforts have been linked together through the Ogallala Water Coordinated Agriculture Project, funded by USDA.
Project Manager Amy Kremen, who is based at Colorado State University, said she is starting work on the next Ogallala Summit to be held early next year in the Texas panhandle. The initial summit, held in Garden City in April 2018, was met with enthusiasm by participants, who welcomed the opportunity to network, share ideas and enhance cross-collaboration.
Kremen said organizers are looking forward to following up and building on the momentum generated at the first summit.
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I've said it quite a few times; 'Let's meet again', 'Here's my card', 'Whenever you're in Holland, let me know!' You always meet twice, at least! We connect, get connected, become Facebook friends and meet again.
We do meet again. It's been over 1 year, and roughly 6000km since I've met Alexander in Yaxche Jungle Camp in Belmopan, Belize. He was on his long way down from Canada, I was working on a jungle project. Some 2000km before his most Southern point I see Alex again.


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DNA typing, DNA analysis, human identity testing, and tissue culture strain identification.


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This entry was posted in Graphic Reviews and tagged Andrew Pepoy Bill Willingham Fables fairy tales Mark Buckingham Steve Leialoha on July 30, 2015 by Kyle Hagan
When you've been reading a series for a long time, having the final volume in your hands always feels like such a bittersweet moment. You desperately want to know how it's all going to end and yet, if it's a good one, you just as desperately want it to never end. Fables has long been one of my favorite graphic novel series and now that the last volume has been released, it seemed like the perfect time to review it. It's written by Bill Willingham and illustrated by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy and others. Fables is a massive twenty-two volume series in which the reader gets to see all the familiar, fairy tale characters come to life and all the complications that result from mixing the mundane with the magical.
In this series, a mysterious invader known only as the Adversary has conquered fairy tale world after fairy tale world, enslaving or murdering all that opposed him. Those few who managed to escape his clutches manage to pool enough magic to get themselves to New York City. The series follows these fairy tale characters as they try to manage their existence in the "mundy" world and build their very own hidden enclave, Fabletown. Those who can maintain a human appearance or purchase magic to do so can live in the city while the more animal Fables (and the poorer ones) must live at the Farm upstate. Some desperately want to get back to their homelands, particularly those who went from princes to paupers, while others have accepted the near impossibility of taking power back from the Adversary and his dark horde. As you might expect from a series this long, the Adversary is not the only challenge the Fables face and often the threats come from within rather than outside Fabletown.
The character growth from story arc to story arc is incredibly well done. The conflict with the Adversary is only one of the stories which Willingham crafts and he does an excellent job making the characters feel like living, breathing people who are as apt to screw up their own lives and those of others as any one of us. They make mistakes, they try to fix them and they live with the consequences. Getting to see the growth of some from minor characters into significant powers in their own right is hugely satisfying.
And I have never loved Snow White more in my life. She's difficult to describe without giving away plot points but I loved how incredibly strong she was throughout the entire series. She's had a rough life and things don't exactly get easier for her, but throughout she leads the other Fables through often horrific circumstances while trying to work things out with her estranged sister, Rose Red. She always feels like a character in her own right, with her own interests and foibles, rather than just a damsel in distress. Add in the unpredictable Bigby Wolf (formerly known as the Big Bad Wolf), witches with only their own self interests in mind, the Frog Prince, Prince Charming, Cinderella and too many others to name and you have the recipe for an incredible fantasy story. From beginning to end, Fables never fails to feel like a transplanted fairy tale in all the best ways.
Where Fables struggles is in its pacing. As strong as the characters are, Willingham has an unfortunate tendency to build the tension as he crafts what you expect to be this glorious climax and then leave you disappointed. As I read the series, I found myself disappointed a few times as he wraps up the conflict with a nice, tidy little bow. Don't get me wrong, I love happy endings. But this is like advertising colorful, booming Fourth of July fireworks and handing out sparklers. It's frustrating and it makes some of the heart rending character deaths and terrible decisions leading up to the climax seem completely pointless.
Despite its pacing problems, Fables is one of those series that I always recommend to anyone who enjoys fantasy graphic novels. If you grew up with fairy tales, at its most basic level Fables is just plain fun as a strangely realistic and highly entertaining version of the characters you knew and loved as a kid. Willingham manages to make it a wild, magical and emotional ride into some very crazy fairy tale worlds. And the artwork, particularly the covers, is gorgeous and supports the magical feel that Willingham evokes. If you can deal with the occasional anticlimactic moment, it's very much a series worth picking up!
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All of our lives are enriched by great music, and for young people, music can reach them at a critical time in their development with new ways of building self-esteem and new perspectives on the world. The Da Camera Society's music education programs invest in our children's future by presenting specially designed concerts that put a personal face on chamber music and build music appreciation and curriculum connections with schools in the greater Los Angeles area.
This season, we'll introduce music to almost 20,000 young people with free concerts at inner-city schools, community centers and juvenile correction facilities. To increase the impact year-round, we offer professional development workshops to classroom teachers, giving them tools and ideas to make music an ongoing part of their daily teaching.
Our concerts demystify chamber music and demolish stereotypes of "stuffy" and "boring" classical concerts – to know this you only have to look at the faces of students at a concert, their eyes lighting up as they discover a new source of joy and meaning. In many cases, these programs will be their very first experience of the thrill of live chamber concert. Imagine how it must feel to hear this music for the first time!
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Pregnancy for a woman should be one of life's joyous experiences. But too often it can be filled with anxiousness for the soon to be mother. A woman goes through many body and mental changes both before and after pregnancy and it can quickly become overwhelming and spoil the experience. Traditionally, when people talk about hypnosis and pregnancy, they're focusing on what is generally called hypnobirthing. Hypnobirthing is a birthing method using self-hypnosis and relaxation techniques to help a woman feel physically, mentally and spiritually prepared and reduce her awareness of fear, anxiety and pain during childbirth. But in this article I want to explore the use of hypnosis in all phases of pregnancy and its viability and help during the important prenatal and postnatal phases and not only during the birthing event.


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A week ago, I shared a quick Q/A with Eon Gaming, the company responsible for the GCHD. Having spent a week with the device, I can now tell you that it is worth it's weight in gold. If you are a fan on the Nintendo GameCube, then there's no better way to enjoy your games in 2019.
From the time your unit arrives, it's made very clear that Eon Gaming is all about quality. The GCHD packaging is incredibly attractive, and even collectible. When you consider they could have easily wrapped this unit up in plastic and sent it as is, it's a very professional delivery indeed. I personally will be keeping the box for display purposes, it's just too nice not to. Of course if you are ordering the Mk-II, the color of your unit and packaging will vary as well based on your personal preference.
The GCHD has a very sturdy, plastic design that seems very solid. I wouldn't say this is the toughest device on the market, but it is certainly well built. Compared to other plug and play devices that offer an input only for the digital port (only available with the DOL-001 US model), this design is vastly superior. It covers the AV side for audio, and the digital side for progressive visuals, making for a much sturdier plug in. There is no looseness to the Mk-II whatsoever, and the device fits snugly into the console with no wiggle whatsoever.
Not only do you have an Analog & Optical Digital audio port, but the Mk-II even includes a Wii Component & SCART port. This means you can use less expensive component cables for the Wii, as well as the side HDMI port. If you're a streamer looking to show off your mad Super Smash Bros. Melee skills, look no further.
One of the absolute best features of the GCHD is the ability to customize your image quality, and even audio output. Whether playing in 480p or 480i display, the GCHD delivers many options for you to clean up the visual presentation. Adding line doubling to games that only support 480i really helps to clean up the image quality. Both 480p and 480i mode allow for scan line settings. This makes the presentation look just like it's being played on a CRT. There are custom brightness modifiers, color modifiers, and other visual options as well.
My only complaint is that in order to access these options, you'll need to own a universal remote. The GCHD features an IR Sensor, and you'll need to point your remote directly at it to utilize it. Depending on the remote that you're using, this can either be an incredibly easy process, or an incredibly tedious one.
All GameCube games look better utilizing the GCHD.
The graphical fidelity of playing using the GCHD or the base composite cables on an HD Television are night and day. I can't stress enough just how much better games look utilizing the GCHD. Colors are more vibrant, textures are much cleaner, and all of this comes with absolutely zero input lag. Even games that don't support progressive mode look sharper. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I saw just how beautiful The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker looked utilizing progressive mode. Call me a geek, I know, but it almost brought a tear to my eye.
Gone is the blurry experience of old. I got a good reflex workout by playing Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the action was tighter than ever. Not only that, but I simply had forgotten how good Melee even looked on it's own. While the GameCube is by no means a graphical powerhouse, the always brilliant artistic direction of Nintendo made for some absolutely stunning games. As someone who very clearly remembers playing these games as a child, I don't think I ever recall them looking this good. These are high words of praise, and they are very much justified.
Unfortunately for this review, I was unable to access a Game Boy Player. However, it's my understanding that this too is supported by the GCHD, and enhances your visual experience with that device as well. I should also note that for casual users, it's best to set your television set to 4:3 aspect ratio for best picture clarity. You certainly don't have to, but I find that it makes games look that much sharper.
This alone could make or break your decision to purchase a GCHD unit. The price is relatively steep at $150. That being said, the GCHD truly is a quality device that offers even more visual options and graphical fidelity than the elusive GameCube component cables (those of which go for $300 or more on eBay). Even at the price of $150, if you're an avid fan of the GameCube, it's worth every penny.
As a huge fan of the Nintendo GameCube, I simply can't sing praises enough of the GCHD. The Mk-II is the best model yet, making it even easier to stream your experience for sharing. While you're obviously not going to get the modern 1080p or 4k visuals we've come to expect from modern games, the GCHD breathes new life into a beloved retro console. The cost of the unit is a bit high at $150, but the overall quality of the device and graphical options make it a worthy investment. If you are an enthusiast of the retro console, I simply can't recommend it enough.
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