Every April, we celebrate our trademark with Fountain Day. This year, visit the Delbert J. Haff Circle Fountain (Meyer Blvd & Swope Parkway) on April 16 when fountain season will be inaugurated as this fountain is turned on again for the season with a KC Parks ceremony.
Kansas Citians know that we are the City of Fountains, but you may not know that our first fountains were not for ornamental purposes. They were rather utilitarian, to provide water for horses, dogs and birds. The city's first fountain was built in 1904 at Fourth & Minnesota for horses and dogs. It featured a large pedestal and a granite basin, and the water spewed from the mouths of lions into a taller bowl where people could get clean water as well. Since that time, it is said we have added more fountains than Rome. You can learn more about the history of our fountains and where to find them at KCFountains.com.
Seeing the first robin in your yard has long been considered a sign of spring. You can learn more about local birds and enjoy bird-watching at Burroughs Audubon Society (7300 SW West Park Rd., Blue Springs), a nature center and bird sanctuary in Fleming Park near Lake Jacomo. The center is home to a large natural history library and small wildlife prairie ideal for bird watching. The center offers education programs throughout the year for budding bird-watchers.
Tulip Time in Topeka, April 5-28: Lake Shawnee blooms with 60,000 tulips, as well as daffodils, hyacinths and spring flowering trees. Multicolored varieties of tulips accent ornate structures, fountains and planting beds along paths through the garden and along the lake shore. Tulips at Twilight, April 12-28: This event features more than 35 lighted displays, including larger-than-life illuminated flowers and more than 40,000 multicolored tulips at Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site and Botanical Garden. The event includes live music and tours on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Tulip Festival in Wamego, KS, April 27-28: Wamego, home to the Wizard of Oz Museum, celebrates spring annually with a festival featuring thousands of tulips from Holland and a large arts and craft fair in the city park where you'll even see a Dutch-style windmill.
Tulip Time in Pella, IA, May 2-4: My girls and I have made it is an annual tradition to visit Pella, for Tulip Time. The city celebrates their Dutch heritage with a three-day festival featuring daily parades (both a daytime and illuminated nighttime parade), dances, delicious Dutch foods (including fabulous pastries from Jaarsma Bakery) and tours. The historic village is brought to life by interpreters who teach visitors about their heritage at the wooden shoemakers shop, grist mill, working Dutch-style Vermeer windmill that grinds wheat into flour, library, bakery and childhood home of Wyatt Earp. This is one of our favorite weekend getaways with so much to see in this beautiful village. We enjoy watching the puppets dance through the windows of the Klokkenspel (musical clock on the square), walking along the canal and viewing the thousands of beautiful tulips. See our story on Pella, Iowa for more information.
You know it's spring in Kansas City when the aroma of barbecue fills the air. It's hard to resist the temptation to pick up ribs at McGonigle's when driving along Ward Parkway, or a weekend stop at one of our favorite barbecue joints. Enjoying barbecue is part of our city heritage. In 1908, Kansas City's "king of barbecue," Henry Perry, sold a slab of pork ribs for 25 cents in the 18th & Vine neighborhood. Since that time, our city has created an art form, developing the best sauces and smoking the tastiest meats in the United States. According to the Kansas City Barbecue Society, we have more barbecue restaurants per capita than any other city in the United States. Whether you enjoy your barbecue at home on the backyard grill or at your favorite local restaurant, the smell of smoke is one of KC's favorite signs of spring.
This year, the Royals' home opener is on March 28, making April the first full month of baseball season. Since 1969, Kansas Citians have been cheering the boys in blue who've won two World Series Championships. Families can enjoy a day at Kauffman Stadium where they can purchase Blue Crew packages for kids (including discounted tickets and souvenirs) or take advantage of a Buck Night (dollar deals on refreshments) and fireworks after Friday night games.
Worlds of Fun opens for the season on April 13. Worlds of Fun is home to seven world-class roller coasters, including one of the tallest, longest and fastest roller coasters in the world. This thriller is the Mamba and boasts a first drop of 205 feet! The Patriot is a giant inverted coaster with four inversions that carries riders at a top speed of 65 mph. Enjoy a thrill as the entire family rides together on the Spinning Dragons, where the cars freely rotate along the track. Or ride the classic wooden roller coaster, the Timber Wolf. Guests of all ages love the live shows. Young children enjoy Planet Snoopy with great rides for kids, and the theme park boasts dozens of thrill rides and attractions for guests of all ages.
Kite flying is at once fun, whimsical, nostalgic and magical. Our family loves flying kites together while we enjoy spring picnics at local parks (see our KC Kite Flying Guide for our favorites). For beginners, we're partial to the simple and inexpensive kites you find at local big box stores. For those wanting to learn how to fly a specialty kite or trick kite, Brookside Toy and Science, HobbyTown and Go Big Skill Toys are three great resources. Also, be sure to mark your calendar for Flights of Fancy on April 20 at MCC-Longview (500 SW Longview Rd., Kansas City, MO, KiteFest.MCCKC.edu). The kites of Great American Kites & Events will take flight over the lawn of the picturesque MCC-Longview campus in the heart of kite month. Marvel at awe-inspiring mega kites, power kites, stunt kites and more, including the world's largest windsock—three stories high and 200 feet long!
Tip: For more spring inspiration, you'll find guides to local waterfalls, hiking trails, picnic spots and parks on KCParent.com.
Kristina Light and her girls look forward to their annual visit to Pella where they enjoy stroopwafels, and Dutch pillows while watching delightful parades with thousands of tulips and a Windmill in the backdrop.


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This article is about the defunct organization. For "NIC" as a generic term used to refer to a registry operator, see domain name registry.
Network Information Center (NIC)
Elizabeth J. Feinler at SRI
Manage Internet protocol numbers and Domain Name System root
www.internic.net
The Network Information Center (NIC), also known as InterNIC from 1993 until 1998, was the organization primarily responsible for Domain Name System (DNS) domain name allocations and X.500 directory services. From its inception in 1972 until October 1, 1991, it was run by the Stanford Research Institute, now known as SRI International, and led by Jake Feinler. From October 1991 until September 18, 1998, it was run by Network Solutions. Thereafter, the responsibility was assumed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
It was accessed through the domain name internic.net, with email, FTP and World Wide Web services run at various times by SRI, Network Solutions, Inc., and AT&T. This website is still active today, operated by ICANN, and currently provides reference documents and information related to domain registration. The InterNIC also coordinated the IP address space, including performing IP address management for North America prior to the formation of ARIN. InterNIC is a registered service mark of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The use of the term is licensed to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).[1]
1 SRI
2 Network Solutions
3 Transfer to ARIN and ICANN
SRI[edit]
The first central authority to coordinate the operation of the network was the Network Information Center (NIC). The NIC was based in Doug Engelbart's lab, the Augmentation Research Center, at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park, California.[2]
In 1972, Elizabeth J. Feinler, better known as Jake, became principal investigator of the project.[3][4]
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the numbers, while the NIC published them to the rest of the network. Jon Postel fulfilled the role of manager of IANA, in addition to his role as the RFC Editor, until his death in 1998.
The NIC provided reference service to users (initially over the phone and by physical mail), maintained and published a directory of people (the "white pages"), a resource handbook (the "yellow pages", a list of services) and the protocol handbook. After the Network Operations Center at Bolt, Bernek and Newman brought new hosts onto the network, the NIC registered names, provided access control for terminals, audit trail and billing information, and distributed Request for Comments (RFCs).[5] Feinler, working with Steve Crocker, Jon Postel, Joyce Reynolds and other members of the Network Working Group (NWG), developed RFCs into the official set of technical notes for the ARPANET and later the Internet. The NIC provided the first links to online documents using the NLS Journal system developed at SRI's Augmentation Research Center.[3]
On the ARPANET, hosts were given names to be used in place of numeric addresses. Owners of new hosts sent email to HOSTSMASTER@SRI-NIC.ARPA to request an address. A file named HOSTS.TXT was distributed by the NIC and manually installed on each host on the network to provide a mapping between these names and their corresponding network address. As the network grew, this became increasingly cumbersome. A technical solution came in the form of the Domain Name System, designed by Paul Mockapetris.
The Defense Data Network Network Information Center (DDN-NIC) at SRI handled all registration services, including the top-level domains mil, gov, edu, org, net, com and us. DDN-NIC also performed root nameserver administration and Internet number assignments under a United States Department of Defense contract starting in 1984.[6]
Network Solutions[edit]
In 1990, the Internet Activities Board proposed changes to the centralized NIC/IANA arrangement.[7] The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded the administration and maintenance of DDN-NIC, which had been managed by SRI since 1972, to Government Systems, Inc (GSI), which subcontracted it to the small private-sector firm Network Solutions.
On October 1, 1991, the NIC services were moved from a DECSYSTEM-20 machine at SRI to a Sun Microsystems SPARCserver running SunOS 4.1 at GSI in Chantilly, Virginia.[8]
By the 1990s, most of the growth of the Internet was in the non-defense sector, and even outside the United States.[7] Therefore, the US Department of Defense would no longer fund registration services outside of the mil domain.
The National Science Foundation started a competitive bidding process in 1992; subsequently, in 1993, NSF created the Internet Network Information Center, known as InterNIC, to extend and coordinate directory and database services and information services for the NSFNET; and provide registration services for non-military Internet participants.[9] NSF awarded the contract to manage InterNIC to three organizations; Network Solutions provided registration services, AT&T provided directory and database services, and General Atomics provided information services.[10] General Atomics was disqualified from the contract in December 1994 after a review found their services not conforming to the standards of its contract.[11] General Atomics' InterNIC functions were assumed by AT&T.
Beginning in 1996, Network Solutions rejected domain names containing English language words on a "restricted list" through an automated filter. Applicants whose domain names were rejected received an email containing the notice: "Network Solutions has a right founded in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to refuse to register, and thereby publish, on the Internet registry of domain names words that it deems to be inappropriate." Domain names such as "shitakemushrooms.com" would be rejected, but the domain name "shit.com" was active since it had been registered before 1996.[12]
Network Solutions eventually allowed domain names containing the words on a case-by-case basis, after manually reviewing the names for obscene intent. This profanity filter was never enforced by the government and its use was not continued by ICANN when it took over governance of the distribution of domain names to the public.[13]
See also: Scunthorpe problem
Transfer to ARIN and ICANN[edit]
The InterNIC project included Internet IP number assignment, ASN assignment, and reverse DNS zone (in-addr.arpa) management tasks until December 1997 when the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) came into operation. At that time, responsibility for these tasks was transferred by the National Science Foundation from the InterNIC project to ARIN via modification of the cooperative agreement with Network Solutions.[14]
The InterNIC Directory and Database services provided by AT&T were discontinued on March 31, 1998 after their cooperative agreement with NSF expired.[15]
In 1998, both IANA and InterNIC project were reorganized under the control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California non-profit corporation contracted by the US Department of Commerce to manage a number of Internet-related tasks.[16] The role of operating the DNS system was privatized, and opened up to competition, while the central management of name allocations would be awarded on a contract tender basis.[17] In July 2010, the IAB and Number Resource Organization agreed that ICANN should perform the in-addr.arpa zone technical management tasks,[18] and this transition to ICANN was completed in February 2011.[19]
Autonomous system (Internet)
^ "InterNIC service mark registration, U.S. Registration No. 1,874,125". U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^ Elizabeth J. Feinler (July–September 2010). "The Network Information Center and its Archives". Annals of the History of Computing. IEEE. 32 (3). doi:10.1109/MAHC.2010.54.
^ a b "Elizabeth J. Feinler". SRI Alumni Hall of Fame. 2000. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
^ Interviewed by Marc Weber (2009-09-10). "Oral History of Elizabeth (Jake) Feinler" (PDF). Reference no: X5378.2009. Computer History Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
^ Steve Crocker (April 1969). "Documentation Conventions". RFC 3. UCLA. Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds (October 1984). "Domain Requirements". RFC 920. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
^ a b Vint Cerf (August 1990). "IAB Recommended Policy on Distributing Internet Identifier Assignment". RFC 1174. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
^ Scott Williamson and Leslie Nobile (September 1991). "Transition of NIC Services". RFC 1261. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
^ "NSF9224--Network Information Services Manager(s) for NSFNET and NREN". Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure. National Science Foundation. 1992-03-19.
^ "NSF Network Information Services Awards (InterNIC)" (Press release). 1993-01-05.
^ "InterNIC Midterm Evaluation and Recommendations: A Panel Report to the National Science Foundation" (PDF). December 1994.
^ Festa, Paul (1998-04-27). "Food domain found "obscene"". CNET. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16.
^ "Internet Domain Names and Intellectual Property Rights". United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. 1999-07-28.
^ NSF (3 December 1997). "Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218742 Amendment No. 07".
^ "E-mail from Chuck Gomes of the InterNIC announcing that AT&T would discontinue its Directory and Database Services on March 31, 1998". IETF Mail Archive. December 1997.
^ "Domain Names: Management of Internet Names and Addresses". National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
^ "Registrar Accreditation: History of the Shared Registry System". ICANN.
^ "Transition of IN-ADDR.ARPA generation". Internet Architecture Board. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
^ "IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Completed". American Registry For Internet Numbers. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
"About the InterNIC", archived web page from April 1996
Interview by Marc Weber (September 10, 2009). "Oral History of Elizabeth (Jake) Feinler" (PDF). Reference no: X5378.2009. Computer History Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
Frode Hegland and Fleur Klijnsma. "Interview with Jake Feinler". Invisible Revolution Web documentary. London. Retrieved April 13, 2011. Video of interview.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=InterNIC&oldid=928115676"
Internet governance organizations
Internet Standard organizations
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
History of the Internet
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Catherine Wark RN is our practice nurse. One of Catherine's primary roles in our clinical team is to assist our doctors with continuity of care for our patients, in particular those with complex or chronic medical conditions. She can assist patients with health assessment, wound care, immunisations, BP checks, ECGs, asthma assessment and inhaler technique, and patient education. Cath might also call you on behalf of the doctors, to book you for follow up appointments. This is especially the case for patients with chronic health problems.
Under normal circumstances we require you to come to our surgery. We can provide home visits to our regular patients who cannot physically attend the surgery, and who live close to the practice. If you require a home visit please call our staff to arrange. It's not always possible to attend in an urgent situation and in that case one of our doctors will talk to you over the phone and advise the best course of action.
Erskineville Doctors participates in Close the Gap programs run by Medicare for our indigenous patients. We encourage our patients who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to let us know so that we can best help you manage your health.


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The R412 road is a regional road in Ireland, which runs north-south from the R448 in County Kildare to the N81 in County Wicklow. En route is passes through the town of Dunlavin where it is joined by the road from Glendalough which crosses over the Wicklow Gap. The route is  long.

See also
Roads in Ireland
National primary road
National secondary road

References
Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006 – Department of Transport

Regional roads in the Republic of Ireland
Roads in County Kildare
Roads in County Wicklow

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Is The House Going To Cave On Its Responsibility? Maybe Not!
I've been writing for weeks that the House needs to step up and improve the Senate health care bill in conference. They are co-equal branches and wh
By John Amato — December 23, 2009
I've been writing for weeks that the House needs to step up and improve the Senate health care bill in conference. They are co-equal branches and when a bill is to be merged, there are usually compromises made. Sen. Conrad screamed out on FNS and said that if the House tinkers with their precious bill, it won't pass.
CONRAD: It is very clear that the bill, the final bill, to pass in the United States Senate is going to be -- have to be very close to the bill that has been negotiated here. Otherwise you will not get 60 votes in the United States Senate.
My sources on the Hill have told me that Nancy Pelosi doesn't have the votes from progressives to pass the Senate bill as it stands. I know the White House doesn't want to play hardball now, but we do. What will Lieberman say if they do make changes to strengthen the bill? Will he be the man that killed health care reform to Americans?
mcjoan had an article posted yesterday that said the progressives appeared to be caving.
It's beginning to look like the House is going to cave into Lieberman and Nelson, too. TPMDC And co-chair of the Progressive Caucus Raul Grijalva seals it.
In the interview, Grijalva confirmed that House Dems were beginning to discuss the idea of revising the Senate bill in conference to move up the implementation date for insurance coverage and make it more in line with the earlier date in the House bill. I asked Grijalva if he could support the bill if such a change were made, even if it lacked a public option or other similar concessions sought by liberals. "It would sweeten it somewhat," Grijalva said, "if they speed up the coverage mechanism."
He added: "That would be something I'd have to look at very closely."
Asked if he was suggesting that he's open to supporting such an outcome, Grijalva answered in the affirmative, but insisted that he would have to evaluate the changes in conference before making any decision. He said House liberals would continue to push for a public component and a repeal of the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies. And he demanded that conference negotiations not merely "rubber stamp" the Senate Bill.
Moving up implementation dates would help, and that appears to be a House leadership might use as a "key arguing point" in the upcoming conference.
But today a new Politico piece paints somewhat different picture: House Dems: We won't roll over
House Democrats insisted Tuesday they have no plans to roll over for the Senate in upcoming negotiations on a health reform bill, even as they acknowledged it would be all but impossible to reinsert a public insurance option or force the so-called millionaire's tax on the Senate.
Either move would disrupt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's no-margin-for-error 60-vote majority. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team seem to have their sights set on lower-profile - but no-less important differences, like boosting affordability credits in the final bill and starting the insurance exchange a year earlier, which they did in the House.
Members will return the next week, and aides said they would still like to pass a bill by the State of the Union at the end of January or the beginning of February. But leadership staff in the House said that that doesn't mean they're prepared to just accept the Senate bill. {..}
"We want to move a bill by the State of the Union, but we want to do it because we're ready, not because we have to," an aide said.
Here are a few key points that can be fixed in conference, but please add your own...read on
Again, I've been writing that the House needs to stand up and be counted and they seem to be listening to our calls not to roll over for the Senate. I've contacted several members of the House for comment and will get back to you soon on that.
There's plenty of info on-line that explains what's wrong with the Senate bill, but here's a few key points. Add to the list in the comments.
* National exchange (rather than state exchanges)
* Public option
* Repeal anti-trust exemption
* Wealthy surtax, rather than middle-class insurance tax
* Better affordability provisions in House bill, including level of subsidies and Medicaid to 150% poverty.
* Repeal Stupak language.
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Fox News' Brian Kilmeade: Republicans 'Maybe Not True To Their Country'
John Amato — Jul 18th, 2017
Kent Conrad Says That America Is Run By The 'Senate" Is The House Listening?
John Amato — Dec 21st, 2009


I'm reading next Monday, January 5, 2015 (!) at the Miss Manhattan reading series with a great lineup including Jazmine Hughes, Jaime Joyce, and Alan Hanson. I promise a story about a cat or a story about synchronized swimming.


Upgrading to Compete is a copublication of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers play a role and enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? What opportunities do clustering and global value chains offer to SMEs in global markets?
Upgrading to Compete shows that both the local and the global dimensions matter at once. Clustering and collaborating with other local firms offers substantial advantages, and participating in global value chains and interacting with foreign buyers and companies may enhance local firms' capabilities and access to distant markets as well. However, what matters most markedly is the form of governance of value chains and clusters, which affects the upgrading process of local SMEs. Thus, hierarchical and less cooperative chains often inhibit more complex and promising forms of upgrading.
The book illustrates this point with original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America. Case studies from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Nicaragua are supplemented by desk studies on other experiences in the region. The methodological foundations and the policy implications of these analyses are also exhaustively addressed.


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Interesting article on leadership by my friend Patrick Goh.
According to the BBC today, life expectancy in the UK is on the rise. Maybe there are more years ahead of you in work and life than you had imagined, which makes it all the more important to be in touch with what you enjoy and what you are good at so that you spend your time on what is both fulfilling and rewarding. Are you trapped in a job that no longer 'fits'?
Get in touch to find out how we can help you find your true north.
I'm aware of growing numbers of people facing redundancy at the moment due to government spending cuts and many of these are in the public sector.
Some will be able to find similar work in the private sector. Others will want to review their career plan. At Finding True North we can help people to get in touch with their strengths, transferable skills, and what they enjoy to build their confidence and help them to map out a fresh career plan.
Put us in touch with one another.
It seems to be a while since I last wrote anything. Since an enjoyable walking holiday on Exmoor at the end of February I seem to have been busy with networking, starting work with new clients, and delivering free coaching taster sessions to help people discover how coaching can benefit them.
I visited BNI Circus chapter in Bath this morning (I'm a member of BNI Ushers in Melksham) and enjoyed the networking and renewing the acquaintance of a lot of people I know. One member has already taken me up on my offer of a taster session.
This evening I'm networking at Swindon Connections with the Swindon Coaching Team.


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A special Thank you to Puffin Books for sending me this book to review!
Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? Will Skye ever step out of Summer's shadow and find her own chance to shine?
This is seriously such a cute book! The cover alone is gorgeous! How could you not want to read this book?! This is the 2nd installment in the series, and it is just as good (if not better) than Cherry Crush! Marshmallow Skye has a spooky feel to it too, which is perfect so close to Halloween.
Skye is an identical twin and is really searching out who she is apart from her sister. She hears a spooky ghost story on Halloween night and then her mother find a trunk full of old things belonging to the girl in the ghost story. Spooked yet?! Skye starts having dreams and everything goes out of control.
I love the Tanberry Bed and Breakfast and I love love love that old Gypsy Caravan! I want one! Now! Not to mention all of Paddy's homemade chocolates. I could actually smell marshmallow in the air. Taste that sweet stick fluffy treat on my tongue. The descriptions are great. I need s'mores. Now.
This series has much more to tell. There are 3 more sisters stories, and I wish I had the books now! This will make a perfect book for a niece or daughter just around this Halloween season! I loved it!
"I don't believe in ghosts," Summer says firmly. " I'm not crazy! But, I'm telling you, there is something weird about all this stuff. It makes me uneasy."


AppSec California 2019, which was again held at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, California, brought together nearly 600 attendees to discuss application, web, and device security challenges, successes, and best practices. ITSPmagazine was there and captured a few pictures from the 2-day event.
Below the picture gallery you'll find a few tweet quotes from the event.
Challenges of #CyberInsurance: Lack of expertise; Lack of data; Accumulation; Evolution of risk; Narrow views; Standardization; Confusion; Unclear legal & regulatory rules.
"Don't bake creds and secrets into containers. Obvious, but it needs to be said. Pass them into your container as environment variables."
"Self-driving cars will not become a reality until bots can pass the photo captcha test."


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Towards Protecting Health Care in Karachi: A Legal Review
Towards Protecting Health Care in…
As part of the ICRC Health Care in Danger Project in Karachi, the ICRC partnered with the Research Society of International Law (RSIL) to conduct a review of the legal framework within which the Karachi healthcare sector operates, in order to identify gaps in the existing legal system and posit effective recommendations to enhance the security of health-care workers, establishments and medical transport. The report examines the unique legal framework which informs the provision of health-care services in Karachi and how this framework currently protects health-care providers (HCPs) and their patrons. Within this context, the general and specific risks and threats to the health-care sector are highlighted with a view to recommending legislative and administrative reform to counter them.
This analysis allows for a focused discussion of the current legal regime for the province of Sindh. In this regard, the fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution are examined to demonstrate the limited health-care guarantees that the State of Pakistan offers to its citizens. At the provincial level, the Sindh Health-care Commission Act of 2014 is analysed to assess the potential impact this legislation will have once the Commission is operational. The extent of its powers and duties regarding the protection of health-care professionals would go a long way towards improving security and augmenting health-care service delivery throughout the province of Sindh. Furthermore, the Sindh Injured Persons (Medical Aid) Act of 2014 imposes obligations on hospital staff to treat injured persons on a priority basis over any medico-legal formalities, a provision which would extend to police officials as well. The Injured Persons Act, importantly, also bars members of the police from interfering with the treatment of a patient at a hospital. This provision provides a legal footing to the protection from pressure and harassment that medical personnel have long demanded.
The criminal legal framework in Sindh is also analysed through two federal statutes: the Pakistan Penal Code and the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997. The Code encompasses general offences which criminalize attacks or threats against health-care professionals and also covers damage to property. In the context of terrorism, the 1997 Act provides for enhanced sentences and specifically mentions damage to 'hospitals' as a form of terrorism. As a result of the general nature of the 1997 Act, numerous forms of violence and threats against health-care workers and medical transport also come within its ambit. In relation to the legal provisions regarding ambulances and 'emergency vehicles', the report examines the Provincial Motor Vehicles Ordinance of 1965 as well as the National Highways Safety Ordinance of 2000. The report culminates in a series of recommendations aimed at enhancing the current legal framework and existing administrative protocols.
Date: October-November 2015
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Ranak Martin is a renowned multimedia visual artist. He started as a feature photographer in The Daily Star (a leading English daily in Bangladesh). After his stint at The Daily star, he worked with another English newspaper The Daily sun, as a Staff Photographer. Later he worked as staff photographer with Drik picture agency and DrikNEWS an international photo agency based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Other than that Ranak has worked with organizations like Human Rights Watch, USA; Sunday Times Magazine, Getty Images, Seattle Globalist, The Guardian, GIZ, Unicef, WFP, Summit, Katalyst, IDE, Riverine People, Anadolu Agency, HYSAWA, CARE, Swiss Katalyst, World Press Photo, Photo Visura, UCAN News and FAO. Ranak has completed the Advanced Program in Photography at PATHSHALA, South Asian Media Academy. He has also studied multimedia photojournalism in Egypt. Recently he has studied New Media and Journalism at the University of Washington giving him a better understanding of the people, institutions, and culture of the other parts of the world. In the year 2012, Ranak was nominated for 'Joop Swart Masterclass' organized by 'World Press Photo' the Netherlands. In the same year he was selected as a finalist in Roberto Villagraz scholarship of Photography – EFTI School of Photography and Image Centre, Madrid, Sapin. His works have been published in different local and international news media like Sunday times Magazine, Fotovisura, Social Documentary, The Guardian; Getty Image, Lightbox.time, UCAN News, The Daily Star, Daily Sun, Daily Jurantor, Daily Ittefaq, Daily Prothom alo, Drik news and also exhibited in many photo exhibitions across the country. Ranak focuses on social issues, rural development, and women rights and development in Bangladesh. He had many national and international exhibitions consisting of his extraordinary work.


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VA secretary attacks reports of slowdowns in mailed prescriptions as 'conspiracy theories'
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A postal worker loads a delivery vehicle at the United States Post Office in Cranberry Township, Pa., on Aug. 19, 2020. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie is dismissing reports of significant delays in veterans mailed prescriptions as "conspiracy theories" being used to "score political points against the Trump administration," and warning that the narrative could discourage some individuals from using the U.S. postal service for critical medications.
"It's disappointing to see how comfortable some are with presenting misinformation to advance a political agenda, even when that information has the potential to cause harm to those who served this country," Wilkie wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.
Veterans should never be given reason to doubt a system that continues to work for them at a high level, year after year."
Wilkie's comments come amid growing concerns from both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill about issues with postal service operations, including reports from veterans service organizations of slowdowns in medication delivery.
Last last month, Disabled American Veterans reported "an increasing number of credible reports" of problematic slowdowns in veterans receiving mailed prescriptions. Democratic leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said they have received numerous letters from veterans complaining about delayed deliveries creating health problems, with little explanation for the reasons.
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The USPS leader acknowledged mail slowdowns in recent months but blamed them on service challenges, not deliberate obstruction.
Last week, Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jerry Moran, R-Kan., sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy asking USPS to prioritize timely delivery of veterans' mail-order medications amid planned agency reforms.
"VA has informed me that over the past year, its outpatient prescriptions delivered by USPS have experienced delays of nearly 25 percent, with average delivery time rising from 2.3 days in June 2019, to 2.86 days," Moran wrote.
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"There is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged postal operations as it has so many aspects of our society. In light of the difficult environment, I urge you to remain mindful that ongoing management and operational reforms do not negatively impact important functions which VA and our veterans rely."
Democratic lawmakers have accused the White House of altering postal operations in an effort to disrupt mail-in voting this fall, inadvertently also hurting veterans.
VA mail-order pharmacies handle roughly 150 million outpatient prescriptions each year, with USPS handling about 86 percent of that work. That number has increased slightly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, after many VA medical sites with pharmacies shut down for non-emergency services in an effort to slow the spread of that illness.
In his editorial, Wilkie noted that the slowdown to just under three days for delivery still remains faster than the department's self-mandated target of three-to-five days for medication mailings.
Post office officials backtrack on service changes that delayed veterans' prescriptions
Federal officials had said veterans mailed medications had been slowed by 25 percent or more in recent months.
"It's only natural that some isolated problems will occur, given the volume of prescriptions we send in the mail," he wrote. "But when we see delays, we don't sit back and accept them — we find solutions. VA staff continuously monitor our delivery times, and we shift to commercial carriers if USPS is experiencing problems in certain regions of the country."
The secretary acknowledged that the department has switched to private-sector delivery services for some areas in recent months, including Michigan, New York, New Jersey and Arizona. But he insisted there is "no data" backing up signs of widespread problems with veterans medication deliveries.
"This utterly untrue premise doesn't square with the fact that the vast majority of veterans are happy with VA's prescription program," he wrote.
Democratic lawmakers have promised additional oversight on the issue in coming months to ensure that mailed ballots and medications continue to be delivered in a timely fashion.
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Leo covers Congress, Veterans Affairs and the White House for Military Times. He has covered Washington, D.C. since 2004, focusing on military personnel and veterans policies. His work has earned numerous honors, including a 2009 Polk award, a 2010 National Headliner Award, the IAVA Leadership in Journalism award and the VFW News Media award.
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Over the past several years, we've had a lot of fun digging through the EC&M archives. During that time we've published a number of photo galleries, sharing dozens of images that date back as far as 1901. Well, we thought we'd share our favorites with you. These are our ten favorite photos from the EC&M archives. Enjoy!


It is an irony that the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, should be the last of the Shaker villages in the United States. During much of its history, the community, which was founded in 1794, was impoverished and small in numbers—the "least of Mother's children in the East." Even among the five villages surviving the longest, Sabbathday Lake was seen as a backwater: it alone never provided a leader for the central ministry of the United Society of Believers.
The difficulty of life in the harsh Maine countryside and the community's lack of material wealth may actually have helped ensure the survival of the Shaker way in Maine. The 1,900-acre village is no longer remote—lying on either side of what is now Route 26, one of Maine's busiest north-south arteries—but its rural location on the western edge of the Town of New Gloucester helped insulate the community from worldly influences. Sabbathday Lake is also fortunate to have been served by an unbroken line of gifted leaders who have drawn young Shakers into the spiritual traditions of the Society for over two hundred years.
The community traces its origins to the visit in November 1782 of three Shaker missionaries from Gorham, Maine, who came to preach among people caught up in the religious revival then sweeping through much of the frontier country of northern New England, arrived at Thompson Pond Plantation near Sabbath Day Pond. Four local families— the Holmes's, the Merrill's, the Pote's, and the Wilson's—consecrated their lives and their properties to the Society. By the next year, 173 individuals were living in the community. At first these pioneers continued to live on their own farms, but on April 19, 1794, the group was formally gathered as an organized community.
The earliest joint efforts at building among the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake were the construction of a gristmill in 1786 and a gambrel-roofed Meeting House in 1794, which still serves the community for worship today. The year following the completion of the Meeting House, the community erected a large Dwelling House, its two front doors facing the two front doors of the Meeting House across the way. The Dwelling House was a 3 1/2 story structure that included a chapel, several large sleeping rooms, a kitchen, and a dining room, where the Brethren and Sisters dined at separate tables. With a home for its members, the beginning of an economic base in the sawmill erected in 1796 and in agriculture, and a place for the community to practice their faith, Shaker Village had been established.
The Village would continue to grow. By the early nineteenth century, the community had constructed twelve buildings that were used for a variety of trades. By the early twentieth century, the Village consisted of over twenty structures, including the Boys' Shop, the Brethren's Shop, the Dwelling House, the Girls' Shop, the Great Mill, the Hired Men's Houses, the Meeting House, the Ministry's Shop, the Schoolhouse, the Sisters' Shop, the Spinhouse, and the Trustees' Office, as well as barns, chicken houses, and a greenhouse.
The Village now includes eighteen structures. The original functions of many of these structures have changed. The Dwelling House is the Shakers' residence, the Meeting House is used for Public Meeting during the summer, the Schoolhouse houses the Shaker Library, the Spinhouse is the location of the Shaker Museum, and the Trustees' Office houses the Shaker Store.
Although the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake is much smaller than it was at its height, it has conserved its traditions. Only in Maine, for example, was the practice of regular community worship maintained. This determination on the part of the community seems to have provided a fuller context for living the Shaker life that continues today.
Sister Frances A. Carr, the female head of the community, was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1927 and became a Shaker in 1937. She described the impact of the project on the community: "I think the whole experience of people living here . . . , for some just a month, made such an impact on their lives and also on our life because it . . . reinforced what I have often thought, and that is while it is terribly essential for a core of Shakers to be in this community always, God willing, people who come here and are touched by the Shaker life, by Mother's Gospel, and have to go back to the world for reasons of their own, who for one reason or another can't live in community, I think it changes their lives, and I think they always will feel a part of the life here, and that in itself is a gift. That is a true gift, that God took people, brought people here from every background, every nationality, every color, . . . and it all blended together and hopefully it will never leave them. . . . They have been touched by that Shaker experience. Look how they sing so happily about Mother's Gospel. They couldn't feel the way they do if it hadn't made an impression on them. It changed their life. I'm convinced of it. And it changed ours." Sister Frances is the author of Shaker Your Plate: Of Shaker Cooks and Cooking (1985) and Growing Up Shaker (1994).
Sister Marie Burgess was born in Rumford, Maine, in 1920 and became a Shaker in 1939; she died in 2001. She came to the community when she was nineteen. She made many contributions to the community, including baking the community's bread three times a week for over forty years.
Sister June Carpenter was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1938 and became a Shaker in 1989. A former librarian, she originally came to the community in 1988 to catalogue the collection in the library. Of her experience as a member of the community, she has stated: "I'm very glad to be here. I'm grateful they accepted me. God always provides everything I need and a lot more, and I'm grateful to him for putting me here, and I keep trying to grow in my life for him, and I don't know if it's noticeable to anyone else, but I think I'm gradually doing better and growing into it more and more. So I hope to keep doing that for the rest of my life."
Sister Minnie Greene was born in South Portland, Maine, in 1910 and became a Shaker in 1921; she died in 2001.
Sister Ruth Nutter was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1908 and became a Shaker in 1911; she died in 1997. Describing her view of what being a Shaker is, she stated: "To me, a Shaker is more than a dress. It is loving, caring, kindness. When I used to work in the shop, they would say, 'What is a Shaker?' And I'd say, 'Well, it's just a person who tries to live right and do right, does what he can for other people.' In fact, maybe we all have a little bit of Shaker in us. . . . I think the Shakers try very hard to live their faith, live their religion, which is, to me, far more than words. You've got to live it. And I hope that's the way the artists will live."
Brother Arnold Hadd, the male head of the community, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1956 and became a Shaker in 1979. Brother Arnold had been visiting the community for three years before he decided to join—an experience that gave him insight into how the community lived. He discussed whether the project changed the community as follows: "I think it made us . . . more willing in the future to listen through to something else that would be out of the ordinary for us to even consider. The overall effect is that we feel that we have twelve very good friends that we would never have had before, and keeping in contact with them means a great deal to us. . . . [T]hey might have been here a short period of time, but as time goes on, it becomes more important the time they did share with us."
Brother Alistair Bate was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964 and became a Shaker in 1995; he later left the community. He explained his initial interest in becoming a Shaker: "I felt called by God in quite a definite way. . . . I had been a member of a Benedictine community for two years, between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two, and I left because I couldn't hack it. I wasn't emotionally strong enough to deal with the loneliness of that life at that time, but at various points, I looked back on that time with perhaps more than nostalgia. I felt increasingly called to a monastic lifestyle, but in those few years I had been away from the Benedictines, I had gotten interested in spiritualism and Quakerism, as well as the Anglicanism of my birth. So my theological horizons had broadened. And so when I was looking at religious communities, I was looking for something that was theologically quite progressive, but had yet quite a disciplined, ordered, and contemplative lifestyle. So Shakerism just fitted what I was looking for, and fitted where life had taken me to very perfectly."
Brother Wayne Smith was born in Portland, Maine, in 1963 and became a Shaker in 1979. Of his decision to become a Shaker at age sixteen, he has observed: "[A]t sixteen sometimes it's hard to figure everything out, but what was very apparent to me at the time . . . was that this really had become my home. That the people who live here really were beginning to mean more and more to me and also there was for the first time a real interest in my spirituality as opposed to just . . . going to church. . . . [B]y being here and just experiencing the life, things just grew from that."
Today, the Shaker community moves forward with its tradition, although the world often assumes that Shakerism is as static as the historical relics of highly collectable furniture which have become synonymous with the Shaker name. As the late Sister R. Mildred Barker (1897-1990) mused, "When I die, I fairly expect to be remembered as a piece of Shaker furniture." But these kinds of misinterpretations do not deter the Shakers from their real vocation, and the strength of their convictions cannot be measured in terms of their number. For Sister Frances, "Shakerism has always been known as an ever-changing, ever-evolving way of life. If we allow ourselves to become static, to become complacent, we are in trouble. It always has to change. It always has to move." New people and new ideas are embraced, as Believers actively pursue their own personal faith journeys, never relying on the security of a historically interpreted doctrine. Brother Arnold has emphasized these aspects of his community as well. "The greatness of Shakerism," he has stated, "has always been its open, elastic nature, that allows for the embracing of so many things, and for the individual to grow." The Quiet in the Land focuses on this living Shakerism, and not just the material culture and artistic "crafts" through which much of the world sees this tradition.


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Q: Why is Karl Tagon allowed to be an officer of Tagon's Toughs? Why did the U.N.S. military allow Karl Tagon to serve as an officer in Tagon's Toughs after the company's first stint working for the Oafans? It's well-established that the U.N.S. gets displeased with its generals becoming prominent in other organizations. Karl said as much himself the first time he joined up with the Toughs, in what became the alternate timeline:

I told you, I can't take a job with any military outfit. Celeschul law: ex-generals have quiet retirements, or treason trials.

Under somewhat different circumstances, this was pointed out to Xinchub as well:

The U.N.S. has very strict laws regarding officers deserting their posts and becoming kings.

In that first case, Tagon's presence was explained away as role-playing, and the U.N.S. had bigger problems on its plate (i.e. the Paan'uri war) right up until the point when those bigger problems destroyed the galaxy. However, he's now employed as a commodore in less frantic circumstances, which I doubt can be hand-waved away as a fantasy camp experience. So why didn't anyone go after him, even though he entered U.N.S. territory? Did the U.N.S. not know about his new job? Could the reward of capturing and trying him not have been worth the risk? Was the company's diplomatic immunity shielding him? Or was something else going on?

A: This is discussed in Big, Dumb Objects. It pretty much comes down to if the U.N.S make an issue of it the details of Karl's kidnapping and the U.N.S's lack of response would come public.  Also, Karl has enough political connections and "knowledge of where the bodies are buried" that he could induce the Legislature to change Celechul's "Special Assets" law (that he originally wrote).  As much power Xinchub had, he didn't have access to it while cut off and trapped on Yoming.

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Mercurous Halide Boule, and Two pixelated detectors (left) and Conceptual drawing of spectrometer for planetary geochemistry.
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Spectropolarimetric Imager with SWIR Liquid Crystal Variable Retarders
Data collected using SWIR liquid crystal variable retarders.(Clockwise from top-right) (a) Intensity at 1200nm. (b) Degree of linear polarization. A high degree of polarization on the metal and glass surfaces on the car is seen. (c) Angle of linear polarization. The HSV color space is used with DOLP as the Value parameter.
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Ratio of calculated exposure to GCR with shielding by a slab of various materials of the same thickness (30 cm) to that of PE.
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