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Geography of Azerbaijan
Title: Geography of Azerbaijan
Subject: Outline of geography, Geography of Europe, Azerbaijan, Extreme points of Azerbaijan, Geography of Georgia (country)
Collection: Geography of Azerbaijan
Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2013
WorldHeritage articles incorporating text from the Library of Congress Country Studies
WorldHeritage articles incorporating text from the World Factbook
Climate of Europe
Geography of Europe
Geography of Asia
Azerbaijan articles
Mannaeans
Atropatene
Caucasian Albania
Arran (Caucasus)
Sajid dynasty
Sallarid dynasty
Rawwadids
Shaddadids
Kara Koyunlu
Ag Qoyunlu
Safavid dynasty
Afsharid dynasty
Zand dynasty
Qajar dynasty
Russo-Persian War (1804–13)
Treaty of Gulistan
Treaty of Turkmenchay
Armenian–Tatar massacres
March Days
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Soviet Azerbaijan
Black January
Independent Azerbaijan
History of the name Azerbaijan
The Land of Fire
Orography
State reserves
Air and Air Defence Force
Caspian Guard
Internal Troops
Peacekeeping forces
State Border Service
Gabala Radar Station
Ministry of Defence Industry
Manat (currency)
Mineral industry
Petroleum industry
Ashiq
Meykhana
Novruz (New Year)
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Library of Congress Country Studies.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the CIA World Factbook.
^ http://web.archive.org/web/20070524005453/http://www.azhydromet.com/SRIH/Water%20Resurs.html
^ Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. 2013. "Caspian Sea." Robert Warren Howarth (ed.), Biomes & Ecosystems, vol. 2. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, pp. 431-433.
Petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, bauxite
Arable land: 22.95%
Permanent crops: 2.79%
Other: 74.26% (2012 est.)
14,250 km² (2010)
34.68 km3 (2011)
Total: 12.21 km3/yr (4%/18%/78%)
Per capita: 1,384 cu m/yr (2010)
Resources and land use
Çikil
Çilov
Glinyaniy
Nargin
Pirallahı
Qara Su
Səngi Muğan
Vulf
Area comparative
Australia comparative: larger than Tasmania
Canada comparative: larger than New Brunswick
United Kingdom comparative: slightly larger than Scotland
United States comparative: slightly smaller than Maine
EU comparative: slightly smaller than Portugal
Total: 2,468 km
Border countries: Iran (with Azerbaijan-Nakhchivan exclave) 700 km, Russia 338 km, Turkey 17 km
0 km (landlocked). Azerbaijan borders the Caspian Sea. (713 km)
None (landlocked)
large,flat lowland (much of it below sea-level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, uplands in the west
Lowest point: Caspian Sea -28 m
Highest point: Bazarduzu Dagi 4,485 m (on border with Russia)
Highest peak entirely within Azeri territory: Shah Dagi 4,243 m
Total: 86,600 km² - country comparison to the world: 113
Land: 82,629 km²
Water: 3,971 km²
Note: Includes the exclave of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region; the region's autonomy was abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on November 26, 1991.
Area and boundaries
Droughts; some lowland areas threatened by rising levels of the Caspian Sea
Environment—current issues
Local scientists consider the Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) (including Baky and Sumqayit) and the Caspian Sea to be the ecologically most devastated area in the world because of severe air, water, and soil pollution; soil pollution results from the use of DDT as a pesticide and also from toxic defoliants used in the production of cotton.
Party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Signed, but not ratified: none
Like other former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan faces a gigantic environmental cleanup complicated by the economic uncertainties left in the wake of the Moscow-centered planning system. The Committee for the Protection of the Natural Environment is part of the Azerbaijani government, but in the early 1990s it was ineffective at targeting critical applications of limited funds, establishing pollution standards, or monitoring compliance with environmental regulations. Early in 1994, plans called for Azerbaijan to participate in the international Caspian Sea Forum, sponsored by the European Union (EU).
The Caspian Sea, including Baku Bay, has been polluted by oil leakages and the dumping of raw or inadequately treated sewage, reducing the yield of caviar and fish.<[2] In the Soviet period, Azerbaijan was pressed to use extremely heavy applications of pesticides to improve its output of scarce subtropical crops for the rest of the Soviet Union. The continued regular use of the pesticide DDT in the 1970s and 1980s was an egregious lapse, although that chemical was officially banned in the Soviet Union because of its toxicity to humans. Excessive application of pesticides and chemical fertilizers has caused extensive groundwater pollution and has been linked by Azerbaijani scientists to birth defects and illnesses. Rising water levels in the Caspian Sea, mainly caused by natural factors exacerbated by man-made structures, have reversed the decades-long drying trend and now threaten coastal areas; the average level rose 1.5 meters between 1978 and 1993. Because of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, large numbers of trees were felled, roads were built through pristine areas, and large expanses of agricultural land were occupied by military forces.
Air and water pollution are widespread and pose great challenges to economic development. Major sources of pollution include oil refineries and chemical and metallurgical industries, which in the early 1990s continued to operate as inefficiently as they had in the Soviet era. Air quality is extremely poor in Baku, the center of oil refining. Some reports have described Baku's air as the most polluted in the former Soviet Union, and other industrial centers suffer similar problems.
Subtle changes due to rising sea level can be seen along this coastline
NASA satellite image of Azerbaijan.
Environmental problems
Physiographic conditions and different atmosphere circulations admit 8 types of air currents including continental, sea, arctic, tropical currents of air that formulates the climate of the Republic. The maximum annual precipitation falls in Lenkeran (1,600 to 1,800 mm.) and the minimum in Absheron (200 to 350 mm.). The maximum daily precipitation of 334 mm was observed at the Bilieser Station in 1955.[1]
The climate varies from subtropical and humid in the southeast to subtropical and dry in central and eastern Azerbaijan. Along the shores of the Caspian Sea it is temperate, while the higher mountain elevations are generally cold. Baku, on the Caspian, enjoys mild weather that averages 4 °C (39.2 °F) in January and 25 °C (77 °F) in July.
Kobustan Mountain, located near Baku, is carved by deep ravines, from which bubble mud volcanoes and mineral springs.
Azerbaijan is nearly surrounded by mountains. The Greater Caucasus range, with the country's highest elevations, lies in the north along the border with Russia and run southeast to the Abseron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea. The country's highest peak, Bazardyuze Dagi, rises to 4,485 m in this range near the Azerbaijan-Russia border. The Lesser Caucasus range, with elevations up to 3,500 m, lies to the west along the border with Armenia. The Talish Mountains form part of the border with Iran at the southeast tip of the country.
Nakhchivan City
Bakıxanov
Khankedi
Map of Azerbaijan
Except for its eastern Caspian shoreline and some areas bordering Georgia and Iran, Azerbaijan is ringed by mountains. To the northeast, bordering Russia's Dagestan Autonomous Republic, is the Greater Caucasus range; to the west, bordering Armenia, is the Lesser Caucasus range. To the extreme southeast, the Talysh Mountains form part of the border with Iran. The highest elevations occur in the Greater Caucasus, where Mount Bazar-dyuzi rises 4,466 meters above sea level. Eight large rivers flow down from the Caucasus ranges into the central Kura-Aras Lowlands, alluvial flatlands and low delta areas along the seacoast designated by the Azerbaijani name for the Mtkvari River (Kura) and its main tributary, the Aras. The Mtkvari, the longest river in the Caucasus region, forms the delta and drains into the Caspian a short distance downstream from the confluence with the Aras. The Mingechaur Reservoir, with an area of 605 square kilometers that makes it the largest body of water in Azerbaijan, was formed by damming the Kura in western Azerbaijan. The waters of the reservoir provide hydroelectric power and irrigation of the Kura-Aras plain. Most of the country's rivers are not navigable. About 15% of the land in Azerbaijan is arable.
The elevation changes over a relatively short distance from lowlands to highlands; nearly half the country is considered mountainous. Notable physical features are the gently undulating hills of the subtropical southeastern coast, which are covered with tea plantations, orange groves, and lemon groves; numerous mud volcanoes and mineral springs in the ravines of Kobustan Mountain near Baku; and coastal terrain that lies as much as twenty-eight meters below sea level.
Topography and drainage
Topography and drainage 1
Mountains 2
Climate 3
Temperature 3.1
Rainfall 3.2
Environmental problems 4
Area and boundaries 5
Islands 5.1
Resources and land use 6
Climate of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Temperature, Politics of Azerbaijan, Precipitation
Politics of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Council of Europe, Politics of Armenia, Politics of Cyprus
Azerbaijan, Ganja, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Jerusalem, Caspian Sea
Outline of geography
Antarctica, Earth, Geodesy, Cartography, Australia
San Marino, Malta, Russia, Iceland, France
Extreme points of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Politics of Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Geography of Azerbaijan, Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan
Geography of Georgia (country)
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Tea, Manganese


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For historic Philadelphia seminary, enrollment hits a new peak
August 28, 2017 CNA Daily News News Briefs 1 Print
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 29, 2017 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The number of seminarians at Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary is on the rise, and rector Bishop Timothy Senior says Pope Francis' visit has been a positive influence on the seminarians.
"With 167 seminarians, we're very excited and not only just the numbers but just extraordinary young men, candidates that really reflect the rich diversity of our region," Bishop Senior told CBS Philly.
There are 43 new seminarians at St. Charles Borromeo this year, 11 of whom are enrolled for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The enrollment is seminary's largest since 2004. The bishop credited Pope Francis' 2015 visit for influencing some of the seminary candidates. The Pope stayed at the seminary campus during his visit.
"I really do believe it sort of freed them up to speak more openly about their desire to be priests because the Holy Father's example has made the priesthood more attractive," he said.
One seminarian, Griffen Schlaepfer of Yardley, Penn., entered the seminary after a year at Pennsylvania State University. He cited the influence of others in motivating him to discern a vocation.
"My friends and family recognized it in me and saying 'Wow, I can really see that as a path for you' even when I didn't see it in myself," he told CBS Philly.
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Wilbur Springs, Calif., Oct 15, 2019 / 04:30 am (CNA).- Archbishop Dominic Jala of Shillong, India and Fr. Mathew Vellankal died in a car crash Oct. 10 during a visit to the Diocese of Oakland.
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Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 6, 2018 / 04:08 am (ACI Prensa).- Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, Fr. Gergorio Hidalgo went to a hospital to give Communion to a patient. But a "mistake" in room numbers allowed him to administer th… […]
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Columbus, Ohio, Mar 16, 2018 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge has blocked a law from taking effect next week which bans abortions after a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
After the law was blocked by Judge Timothy Black March 14, the Catholic Conference of Ohio expressed disappointment in decision but also hope that it may be overturned after an appeal by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
"We are disappointed, we do think that it was an appropriate first step to point out, specifically, that so many Down syndrome children are aborted," said Jim Tobin, Associate Director of the Department of Social Justice at the Catholic Conference of Ohio.
"We are still hopeful that there are other appeals that are available here and that we may be able to yet overturn this decision," he told CNA.
The law, which was due to go into effect March 23, bans abortions solely due to a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. It imposes criminal penalties on medical professionals, but women procuring abortions are not penalized.
The law was signed by Governor John Kasich in December 2017.
On behalf of Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in February against the Ohio Department of Health, county prosecutors, and members of the state medical board.
Black blocked the law's implementation as a privacy violation: "It violates the right to privacy of every woman in Ohio and is unconstitutional on its face," he wrote.
Supporters of the law have questioned Black's impartiality. He had served as president of Cincinnati's Planned Parenthood in 1988 and as its director from 1986-1989.
He recused himself from a case involving Planned Parenthood in 2014.
Tobin lamented the blocking of the law, calling it a tragic case disrespectful to human life.
"It's just tragic that, particularly in the case of Down syndrome, folks would decide that [these babies] are better off aborted than lovingly cared for or placed for adoption," he said, noting these cases show "a loss of respect for the dignity of all human life and their value."
In a March 15 statement, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said will appeal Black's decision.
"I strongly disagree with the district court's ruling that there is a categorical right to abortion that prevents even any consideration of Ohio's profound interests in combatting discrimination against a class of human beings based upon disability. We will be appealing."
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The Arkansas Medicaid Expansion and the Circular Firing Squad
In this discussion thread, I've been having an extensive back-and-forth with Weldon Berger about whether the Affordable Care Act is "conservative." For the most part, I'm happy to stand by my arguments as stated there — it's silly to call a statute "conservative" when 1)it advanced longstanding progressive goals to the maximum extent that was politically viable at the time is was enacted, and 2)both before and after the fact actually existing American conservatives (unless you foolishly count some massively unrepresentative New England Republicans*) have never supported anything like it. But there is one point I want to make here.
One obvious contradiction in Berger's arguments is that he considers the original Medicaid an example of genuinely progressive reform, which makes it hard to explain why a statute that makes Medicaid far more generous can be "conservative." His answer is that the way in which a single state has been permitted to expand Medicaid renders the Medicaid expansion non-progressive. Combining two comments:
In fact, the administration recently granted Arkansas a waiver to steer newly eligible Medicaid recipients into subsidized private insurance plans offered on the exchange there, thereby treating them exactly as the Nixon and Chafee plans proposed to do. One can expect that the states which rejected the expansion will be looking to the Arkansas model when they finally accept it, and that some states which accepted the expansion will follow suit as well.
You can argue, then, that the Medicaid expansion is more progressive than the Republican plan of simply subsidizing private insurance for low-income people ineligible for Medicaid — as Arkansas is now doing with Medicaid funds courtesy of that waiver from the administration — but you can't seriously argue that it is a great leap forward in single-payer. Or at least you can't expect to be taken seriously when you do argue it.
I said that it's not the progressive triumph you think it is, and I explained why. The issue with the Arkansas waiver is — again — that it transmogrifies the Medicaid expansion into exactly the policy in the Chafee plan that you regard as laughably inferior to the Medicaid expansion.
The problems with this argument only start with the fact that Medicaid certainly represents a major expansion of single-payer on net. The bigger issue is with the assertion that the Arkansas Medicaid expansion is identical to the Medicaid changes in the Potemkin Chafee proposal of 1993. This is egregiously false, and reflects the persistent problem of collapsing major differences between various regulatory regimes. The Chafee plan sought to encourage states to put Medicaid recipients on the exchanges without expanding coverage. The Arkansas plan approved by the Obama administration, conversely, requires the state to provide coverage to everyone within 138% of the federal poverty line, not just a relatively small subset of the poor. This is not at all the same as the Chafee plan. In my view, all things being equal public helath insurance is better than private insurance, and my guess is that the Arkansas expansion will prove to be less efficient. But it doesn't follow from that that covering far more people through private insurance required to provide the same benefits as Medicaid is therefore less "progressive" than covering many fewer people through a public insurance program.
The Arkansas medicaid expansion has to be viewed in context. With a legislature dominated by Tea Party Republicans, the choice was not "Medicaid expansion through public insurance" and "Medicaid expansion through heavily regulated private insurance." The choice was the latter or no Medicaid expansion at all. Now, maybe had the administration denied the waiver Arkansas would have eventually relented, although it wasn't going to happen in the short term. (The pot of federal money does covert some powerful actors who are normally barriers to reform into potential allies.) But refusing to take that gamble strikes me as sensible. And I'm certainly don't agree that letting 200,000 poor people go without insurance in the hope that wingnuts will consent to a single-payer expansion is the "progressive" alternative.
But wait — Berger's argument is worse than that. While it's true that there are many contexts in which Democrats have been awfully slow to recognize that John Chafee is not, in fact, representative of the Republican Party, this wasn't one of them. The architects of the ACA anticipated the dilemma that might be posed by red-state Republican governments, and created a funding mechanism that would compel the states to take the Medicaid expansion on federal terms. Only, of course, this mechanism was thrown out by the Supreme Court, leaving a choice between a suboptimal expansion and no expansion in many states. You would think that an allegedly tough-minded progressive critique of health care policy would direct the ire where it's appropriate — at the unprecedented actions of a reactionary Supreme Court, not at Democratic politicians at various levels doing as well as they can within institutional constraints. But this is a problem with the "ACA is conservative plan" set we've observed before — among other problems, they always let the actual villains get off scot-free while training their fire at the wrong targets.
*Several commenters have fairly observed that my characterization of the Massachusetts health care reform as passing over 8 Romney vetoes is misleading. My purpose in this admittedly snarky phrasing was to counter the highly misleading after-the-fact definition of the reform bill as "Romneycare." I'm not pedantic enough to object to legislation being identified with the executive who signed it when she leads the majority coalition, but a case where the executive was in a subordinate position facing supermajorities of the other party in both houses of the legislature is a different story. But it's true that Romney was not a steadfast opponent of the legislation — he did act fairly responsibly in a way in which Republicans virtually never do anymore, and he deserves some credit for that, credit my formulation indeed denies him. Still, Romney agreeing to go along with the legislation doesn't make it a "conservative" or "Republican" proposal any more than Everett Dirksen's crucial support for the Civil Rights Act made it a "Republican proposal." If you had to identify the legislation with one faction it would be the legislative Democrats, although the legislation was a collaboration between the branches.
…Relatedly, see Krugman on the importance of Medicaid.
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Composer and organist, Vincent Lübeck was born in Paddingbüttel, Dorum, Land Wursten, Northern Germany in 1654. He grew up in Flensburg where he learned music, with Caspar Förckelrath, who was the successor of Lübeck's father at the organ of Marienkirche and also the composer's stepfather. Lübeck was a friend of the great organ builder Arp Schnitger. He played Schnitger organs in his posts at St. Cosmae and Damiani in Stade and at St. Nicolai Kirche in Hamburg. St. Nicolai Kirche housed Schnitger's masterpiece, at the time one of the largest and most beautiful organs in the world. While employed at Hamburg, Lübeck also traveled around Northern Germany to give his highly regarded opinion on other organs built by Schnitger (Bremen, Obendorf and Hollern). A remarkable teacher, Lübeck trained Christian Henrich Postel, Johann Friedrich Wiedeburg and two of his own sons, Peter Paul and Vincent. Lübeck died in Hamburg in 1740. Very few of Lübeck's compositions have survived: five cantatas and nine organ and harpsichord works. The great stylistic and musical quality of his works are indisputable and have often been compared to those of Buxtejude and Handel. Lübeck's musical style is vigorous, rich, mature and brilliant. Lübeck contributed positively to the greatness of North German keyboard style.
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Pence pitch to reluctant Republicans: Come home
October 27, 2016 By O. Kay Henderson
Mike Pence in Fort Dodge.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence delivered a plea for party unity to a crowd of about 300 people gathered for a campaign rally on the Iowa Central Community College campus in Fort Dodge this afternoon.
"I would say to all of you now's the time to reach out, particularly here in Iowa, to all of our Republican and conservative friends and to say with one voice: 'It's time to come home.' O.K.? I mean, really and truly," Pence said. "It's time to say to our fellow Republican voters: 'It's time to come home and elect the Trump-Pence team.'"
Pence's comments came as a new Quinnipiac University poll was released showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are virtually tied in Iowa. Pence didn't mention the new Iowa survey, but instead pointed to national polls and jabbed at the idea there's an "air of inevitability" about Clinton winning the presidency.
"It's wheel-to-wheel all across the country. Don't ever doubt it for one second. The race is on and we're going to race all the way to the checkered flag," Pence said, to cheers. "You know she may have the media and the money and the special interests on her side, but Donald Trump and I have got a little bit more. We've got a basket of the American people that are saying: 'Enough is enough.'"
According to Pence, the election's about "big stuff" and nothing's bigger than the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Iowa, you need to decide here and now that in the next 12 days you're going to do everything in your power to make sure that the next president to make appointments to the Supreme Court is President Donald Trump," Pence said, to cheers.
Pence spoke for about 40 minutes. He cited the address of the local election office where people may vote early and Pence closed by urging the crowd to "be confident."
"Go tell somebody, especially some of our Republican friends and, lastly, have faith," Pence said. "Have a spring in your step."
Eric Branstad, the governor's son who's also state director of the Trump-Pence campaign, started the rally with an identical message, that it's time for Republicans to "come home" and defeat 'Crooked Hillary' Clinton.
"Come on!" Branstad said, as the audience cheered. "As a united force, the GOP and our base will absolutely defeat the left-wing gang of Hillary Clinton, media and elites."
Pence spoke briefly with Radio Iowa after the rally and he returned to the theme of party unity.
"We're in the final stage of the campaign and people who are committed to real change in this country, to rebuilding our military, to reviving our economy through tax relief (and) tax reform, people that are committed to seeing justices appointed to the supreme court that will uphold our constitutional liberties all need to come together," Pence said.
Pence had a delayed departure from Iowa due to rainy weather at his next destination. He briefly mentioned his campaign schedule during his remarks in Fort Dodge.
"They'll fling me back on that airplane. I'm headed east," Pence said. "Miles to go before I sleep, as the poet says."
Tonight, Pence's campaign plane made a hard landing and slid off the runway in New York. No one was injured. NBC's Vaughn Hillyard, who is among the media covering Pence daily, reports the campaign plane also took a hard and large bounce when it landed in Fort Dodge.
Tomorrow, Hillary Clinton is scheduled to land at the Eastern Iowa Airport and hold an early afternoon rally in Cedar Rapids, then another in Des Moines in the early evening. Donald Trump will hold a rally in Cedar Rapids Friday evening.
(This story was updated at 10pm with additional information)
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Caroline Dana Howe (, Dana; August 21, 1824 - October 30, 1907) was an American writer of prose, poetry, and hymns. Her celebrated song, "Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall", was claimed and used by several different authors, until her authorship was reasserted, the publishers appending her name to all later editions. A large number of Howe's songs were set to music for which they were easily adapted, and were found in sheet music and in church collections. The songs were gathered into at least 26 collections, and it was said that no living writer in Maine was more favorably known in that day as a writer of songs than Howe. She was also well known as a writer of short serial stories, juvenile sketches, and essays. The Massachusetts Sunday School Society  published a book of about 200 pages of hers, carried successfully through several editions. Howe died in 1907.

Biography
Caroline Dana was born in Fryeburg, Maine, August 21, 1824. She resided in Portland, Maine since early childhood.

She lived in her home for more than 30 years, sharing it with the family of her nephew. There, she wrote most of the poems that gave her a position among the leading hymn singers. A Massachusetts critic, in enumerating the eight songs by American women of the day, sung everywhere, called attention to the fact that four of them were written in Maine, and one of them, "Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall", by Howe. This popular song was written by her in 1856, and first published in Gleason's Pictorial. A few years later, it appeared in another Boston paper, set to music, the composer claiming the words as his own. Several other composers were equally unscrupulous, and it was not until after many years that the question of authorship was finally settled, through the efforts of Oliver Ditson, and proper credit given thereafter by various publishers.

Her first literary work appeared in the Portland Transcript, and in this, as in other leading publications, her contributions of prose and verse were favorably received by the public. In 1862, the Massachusetts Sunday School Society published in book form a story written by her, which passed through several editions. Her verse was characterized by lyric power, by grace of diction, by religious fervor and aspiration, and a sincere heartiness. It was adapted for music, and more than 30 of her hymns and songs were published in collections for church choirs, and in sheet music, becoming very popular. In 1885, a collection of Howe's poems was made under title of "Ashes for Flame and Other Poems".

She died October 30, 1907.

"Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall"
Of the poem, "Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall!" Howe said in 1889:

Leaf by leaf the roses fall,
  Drop by drop the springs run dry,
One by one, beyond recall,
  Summer beauties fade and die;
But the roses bloom again.
  And the springs will gush anew
In the pleasant April rain,
  And the summer's sun and dew.
So in hours of deepest gloom,
  When the springs of gladness fail.
And the roses in their bloom
  Droop like maidens wan and pale,
We shall find some hope that lies
  Like a silent germ apart,
Hidden far from careless eyes,
  In the garden of the heart.
Some sweet hope to gladness wed,
  That will spring afresh and new,
When grief's winter shall have fled.
  Giving place to sun and dew.
Some sweet hope that breathes of spring,
  Through the weary, weary time,
Budding for its blossoming.
  In the spirit's silent clime.

Selected works

Hymns
Angels clothed in shining raiment
Like the birds that sing in the early spring
O prodigal, come, I am waiting
On the heights why standest thou
Press nobly on as God has called
Thine are the rivers: Thine, O God, the power
Where, where are the dear

See also
1874 in music

References

Attribution

Bibliography

External links

 Caroline Dana Howe at hymnary.org

1824 births
1907 deaths
19th-century American women writers
19th-century American poets
19th-century American women musicians
American women poets
American hymnwriters
American essayists
People from Fryeburg, Maine
American short story writers
American women short story writers
Writers from Maine
American lyricists
American women hymnwriters
American women essayists

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1. "All of my people are good performers or they wouldn't be here." While this statement may be true, numerous industry reports confirm that companies improve performance — in terms of both revenue and profitability — when their compensation and rewards programs are clearly differentiated based on individual performance.
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By Marc, July 3, 2017 in Have a tip or idea?
Human Centric Lighting simulate daylight over the entire day - from clear, blue morning skies, right through to the glow of sunset. They achieve this by gradually changing the spectral qualities and the colour temperature as the day progresses. This helps to improve concentration and increase productivity, for instance.
Scientific studies have shown that biorhythmic lighting can reduce error rates in schools by 30 % and at the same time increase pupils' speed of performance by 30 %. Similar results have been obtained in working environments, where productivity rose by almost 20 % and staff motivation improved significantly. In nursing homes and hospitals, the new illumination systems not only encouraged more activity during the daytime, they also had a positive effect on health and clearly improved night-time sleep patterns.
• Biodynamic lighting with adjustable colour temperatures that facilitates the suppression of melatonin.
• Lighting that does not influence the release of melatonin, with adjustable colour temperatures.
Vossloh-Schwabe's first biodynamic COB module is capable of emitting approx. 3,000 lm of light and first trials are currently under way at various hospitals and universities.
Humans are diurnal beings whose performance levels are deter-mined by the natural daynight cycle, in which regard daylight plays a decisive role in regulating bodily functions. Special retinal ganglion cells serve as receptors for nonvisual light stimuli that influence health and wellbeing.
The effect of light on human biology is closely linked to the release of melatonin, which – among other things – serves to regulate our sleep-waking rhythm.
The share of blue light that is perceived is decisive for the release of melatonin. The link between wavelength and its biological effects is characterised by the C(λ) curve.
This "light alarm" facilitates a gradual increase in activity during the morning hours. Light levels that are adjusted to suit different times of day with corresponding control of colour temperatures along the C(λ) curve exert a positive influence on both wellbeing and performance, while also ensuring a good night's sleep.
Since our LED modules permit adjustments of this kind, they make a targeted contribution to activity levels and periods of relaxation.
In addition to illuminating our world, light affects our health and the advances in LED technology are promising for public health. Scientists have long recognized that human metabolism moves through cycles that are synchronized with natural 24-hour "circadian rhythms." Anything that interrupts those rhythms, including exposure to extended periods of bright light or absences of light, can affect a person's health and psychological condition. For example, people who live in far northern or southern climates and who have little exposure to sunlight during winter months can suffer from "seasonal affective disorder", which is a form of clinical depression. Recognizing this, lighting designers and engineers are now paying greater attention to how their products affect the health of individuals who are exposed to those lights.
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One specific example of the advantages of LED lighting in this field is in its use to generate lighting wavelengths that can increase awareness and productivity. Scientists who study biofeedback have long known that human eyes are particularly susceptible to blue light. This knowledge has led to recommendations that individuals who have trouble falling asleep should avoid light sources that might be high in blue light, including smartphones and computer tablets.
Light sources that are high in blue light will suppress an individual's melatonin production, a hormone that facilitates sleep. So to help individuals wake up from a period of sleep, LED lighting can be configured to increase blue light wavelengths. Conversely, when individuals are trying to get to sleep, LED sources that have relatively lower blue light wavelengths will help to create a more relaxing environment conducive to natural circadian rhythms. NASA scientists have relied on this light- and sleep-interaction to change ambient lighting on missions in order to help astronauts get better sleep in space.
Healthcare researchers are also using LED lighting systems to treat depression and other psychological disorders. In addition to suppressing the sleep-inducing melatonin hormone, certain light wavelengths can increase an individual's serotonin levels. Pharmaceutical treatments for depression typically include a form of selective serotonin uptake reinhibitors ("SSRI's"), which combat depression by preventing an individual's body from metabolizing seratonin. At least one study has concluded that exposing individuals who suffer from depression to certain light sources is as effective in maintaining and improving serotonin levels as those prescription medications, which is a big revelation in the mental health field where pharmaceutical medication has been the go-to solution for years.
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Julie Campistron knows how challenging it can be to balance work, family and her own self-care on a daily basis: She's a mom of two, CEO and co-founder of one of the leading meditation apps, Stop Breathe & Think. Julie spoke with LIVESTRONG.COM and shared her greatest tips on productivity and success — both of which don't include the widely-celebrated act of "multi-tasking."
In a world of smartphones and immediacy at every turn, it's hard to shut down and truly be offline. And when you run your own business like Julie does, "free time" can be particularly elusive. So what's Julie's number one tip to be productive? She sets time windows and tries not to multitask.
"I'm usually in the office or meetings from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., but from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., it's important to disconnect to handle our family dinner, my son's homework and bedtime routine," she says. "If I need to catch up on something important, I carve out an hour or two where I'm in full work-mode after 8:30 p.m., but I try not to multitask between family and work."
Julie strives to stay present because she believes it's crucial for her as an entrepreneur (and a parent!) to be the best version of herself in any situation she's in. When she drives her younger son to school in the morning, they connect by listening to an Audible book or she tells him an invented story (usually Harry Potter themed).
"Once I drop him off, I use the 20 minutes to my office to take work calls or catch up with my friends and family in France," says Julie. Another important part of her commute? "I will park and take a few moments to check in and do one of Stop, Breathe & Think's mindfulness activities (her current favorite: Relax, Ground & Clear)."
Owning a business is a challenge for hundreds of reasons, but Julie says that one of the biggest ones is that she's constantly under pressure to lead her team to success. Whether you're hiring seasoned or entry-level employees, Julie believes in allowing all team members to truly own their work.
Just because you're in meetings all day doesn't mean you are necessarily being productive. How often do you finish a meeting without having determined a real action item for moving forward? Julie's action-oriented productivity tips are key in building a pathway to success, with less stress.
"I'm a big fan of to-do lists. Mine are old-school written post-its, but they help me to stay on top of things," she says. "I always take handwritten notes during meetings, they help me remember what was said and I add to-do's from the meeting in the right-hand margin to be able to compile the aforementioned to-do lists more easily."
"Then, I write follow up emails with action items clearly laid out, and block out time in my calendar for projects I know I need to focus on uninterrupted." For Julie, productivity only comes when she's able to take the time to organize her thoughts, hone in on one task at a time and, above all, be truly present no matter what life throws at her.
Sounds like a great recipe for success!


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Q: How to specify GROUP BY field in Dajngo ORM? I have the following working SQL statement:
SELECT id FROM ops_kpitarget WHERE (site_id = 1 AND validFrom <= "2019-08-28") GROUP BY kpi_id HAVING validFrom = (MAX(validFrom))

But I cannot get this to work inside Django ORM.
The best I got was the code below, but then the database is complaining that it is missing a GROUP BY clause to make HAVING work.
How can I get the same query with specifying "kpi_id" as the GROUP BY clause using Djangos ORM? Any ideas?
KpiTarget.objects
  .filter(validFrom__lte=fromDate)
  .values("id", "kpi")
  .filter(validFrom=Max("validFrom"))

... which translates to:
SELECT "ops_kpitarget"."id", "ops_kpitarget"."kpi_id" FROM "ops_kpitarget" WHERE "ops_kpitarget"."validFrom" <= 2019-08-14 HAVING "ops_kpitarget"."validFrom" = (MAX("ops_kpitarget"."validFrom"))

I played around with annotate but this is not really giving me what I want...
Update:
Some background: I have 3 tables: Kpi, KpiTarget, and KpiTargetObservation.
Kpi holds all general information regarding the KPI like name, typeetc.
KpiTarget stores target values defined for several different sites. These target values can change over time. Hence, I have included the combination of MAX() and validFrom <= (some date) to determine the latest valid target for any given KPI.
KpiTargetObservation stores the individual observations per defined KPI target. It just holds the link to KpiTarget, the date of the observation, and the observation value.
The final queries I need to build will have to give me something like the following:

*

*give me all known KPIs per given site

*tell me the most recent target value for the KPIs you found

*get me any known observation that is related to the identified kpi targets

I am struggling with the 2nd query, and specifically how to get this working using Djangos ORM. I could just escape to RAW SQL, but I would prefer to not to, if possible.
The models:
class KpiCategory(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

class Kpi(models.Model):
    KPI_KIND_CHOICES = [("BOOL", "Boolean"), ("FLOAT", "Float"), ("STRING", "String")]
    # firstCreated = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    # firstCreatedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    # lastEdited = models.DateField(auto_now=True)
    # lastEditedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    category = models.ForeignKey(KpiCategory, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    kind = models.CharField(max_length=150, choices=KPI_KIND_CHOICES)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

class KpiTarget(models.Model):
    # firstCreated = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    # firstCreatedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    # lastEdited = models.DateField(auto_now=True)
    # lastEditedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    kpi = models.ForeignKey(Kpi, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="kpiTargetSet")
    targetDouble = models.DecimalField(
        max_digits=20, decimal_places=15, blank=True, null=True
    )
    targetBool = models.BooleanField(blank=True, null=True)
    targetStr = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)
    site = models.ForeignKey(Site, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    validFrom = models.DateField()

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.kpi)

class KpiObservation(models.Model):
    # firstCreated = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    # firstCreatedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    # lastEdited = models.DateField(auto_now=True)
    # lastEditedBy = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    kpiTarget = models.ForeignKey(
        KpiTarget, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="kpiObservationSet"
    )
    observed = models.DateField()
    observationDouble = models.DecimalField(
        max_digits=20, decimal_places=15, blank=True, null=True
    )
    observationBool = models.BooleanField(blank=True, null=True)
    observationStr = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.observed)

A: KpiTarget.objects.filter(validFrom__lte=fromDate).annotate(validFrom=Max("validFrom")).order_by('kpi__id').values("id", "kpi")


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Microsoft Settles Iowa Antitrust Lawsuit
DES MOINES, Iowa – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) on Wednesday settled a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of Iowans who bought the company's programs between 1994 and 2006. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.
The lawsuit sought more than $330 million from Microsoft for allegedly engaging in monopolistic and anticompetitive conduct that caused customers to pay more for software than they would have if there had been competition.
Microsoft denied the allegations, saying Iowa customers received quality products at fair prices.
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On Wednesday, Polk County District Court Judge Scott Rosenberg ordered attorneys to refrain from disclosing details of the settlement until April.
"The court will be advised of the terms of the settlement in April and there will be a hearing on April 20 for preliminary approval and if all goes as scheduled there will be a hearing for final approval on Aug. 31," said Microsoft attorney Rich Wallis.
The world's largest software maker has faced 206 class-action lawsuits across the United States since 2000. The company said 108 were consolidated in a federal antitrust case and 96 remained in state courts.
Most were dismissed or settled before trial.
Only two, the Iowa case and one in Minnesota, went to trial. The Minnesota case was settled after about two months into the trial.
Attorneys Roxanne Conlin and Rich Hagstrom filed the Iowa lawsuit in 2000.
"It was a mutual decision to settle and you kind of have to see the cards lay down. That's part of what happens for both sides," Conlin said. "You have to assess your risk and you have to assess what's in the best interest of your clients."
Both sides agreed the settlement will include making money available to buy computers and software for Iowa schools.
"We're going to take half of the unclaimed amount and use that to close the digital divide in Iowa," Conlin said.
Conlin would not say whether the settlement would take the form of cash or vouchers for computer equipment. Previously, she said she would refuse to accept vouchers.
In the Minnesota case, the lawyers sought more than $300 million from the company. During trial, the case settled for $174.5 million. Lawyer fees were about $59.4 million, according to court documents. The six plaintiffs who brought the case forward received $5,000 each


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Track customers directly in Python using Woopra's Python SDK

The purpose of this SDK is to allow our customers who have servers running Python to track their users by writing only Python code. Tracking directly in Python will allow you to track your users through the back-end without having to handle http requests manually.

## Installation

```python
 pip install woopra
```
OR
```python
 pip install git+https://github.com/Woopra/woopra-python-sdk.git
```

## Usage
The first step is to setup the tracker SDK. To do so, configure the tracker instance as follows (replace mybusiness.com with your website as registered on Woopra):

```python
#import the SDK
from woopra import WoopraTracker

woopra = WoopraTracker("mybusiness.com")
```

You can configure the cookie value - To Woopra, this is equivalent to the browser cookie or anonymous user ID - required only if the user is not identified with an email or an id property
```python
woopra.set_cookie('ABCXYAZ111')
```

You can also configure the timeout (in milliseconds, defaults to 30000 - equivalent to 30 seconds) after which the event will expire and the visit will be marked as offline:

```python
# set the timeout to 15 seconds:
woopra.set_idle_timeout(15000)
```

You can also configure the source ip address:
```python
woopra.set_ip_address('66.228.55.188')
```

You can also configure the user agent:
```python
woopra.set_user_agent('Mozilla/Agent..............)
```

You can also configure the secure (https) tracking:

```python
woopra.set_secure(True)
```

To identify a user, you should use the identify() function. You can choose to identify the visitor with his EMAIL, or with a UNIQUE_ID of your choice (in this case, make sure to re-use the same ID for a given visitor accross different visits).

```
woopra.identify(
	{
		'email' : 'tigi@mail.com',
		'name' : 'Tigi Brombo',
		'admin' : False
	}
)
```

And you're ready to start tracking events:
```python
woopra.track("play", {
	"artist" : "Dave Brubeck",
	"song" : "Take Five",
	"genre" : "Jazz"
})
```

Or just push the user information (without event tracking) by doing:
```python
woopra.push()
```

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There's a special night of comedy with three funnymen on the playbill at Kavanaghs this weekend, in aid of the Cuisle Centre and Pituitary Ireland.
John Colleary and Tom O'Mahony are the main acts, with MC Odran Fitzgerald, for a laughathon this Saturday, February 4, starting at 9pm.
John Colleary is star and co-writer of award-winning TV comedy series The Savage Eye and Irish Pictorial Weekly. His credits include appearances on Stand and Deliver and The Panel on RTE2.
He is a master of satire and mimicry whose Gerry Adams is eerily pitch perfect. He was voted sixth best comedian in Europe by Bail Out Monthly Magazine.
An ex-MMA fighter turned comedian, Tom O'Mahony's first show at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2012 'Endangered Species' was a sell-out.
He went on to continue his rise to the top as one of RTE TV's National New Comedian Finalists in 2013 and followed on with a sell-out show at the International Comedy Club for 10 Days In Dublin Fest.
His 2014 show 'Bring On The Apocalypse' sold out all its Irish dates and saw him sell out yet another Edinburgh Fringe.
His 2015 show 'Got Ammo' was another sell-out success in Irish theatres. Tom is a headline act in many major Irish comedy clubs.
He plays some of the country's biggest festivals, Vodafone Comedy Festival, Forbidden Fruit and this year was part of the Best of Irish show at the 2016 Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival.
For more, go to the venue website at www.kavanaghsportlaoise.com.


Today's honorary bat boy is Randy Knorr.
Blue Jays 11, Twins 3.
American League pitchers continued to throw batting practice to Jose Bautista as he hit three (3!) more home runs to give him 16 on the season. If my math is right, he should break Bonds' record by the All Star break. He also now sports a .368/.520/.868 line that makes me giddy like a schoolgirl. Other players did stuff in this game but, let's face it, it didn't matter.
The Sox handed Trevor Cahill his first loss of the season knocking him around for 4 runs (2 earned) on 10 hits and a pair of walks. Juan Pierre and his .314 OBP continue to lead of because Ozzie is old school like that. On the other side, the A's just keep running out Daric Barton and a bunch of Quadruple A players. Just a really bad offense.
Red Sox 7, Yankees 5.
The Red Sox swept the Yankees to get back to .500 and just 3 games back of East leading Tampa. Curtis Granderson hit a home run off of Jon Lester for 13 on the season, 6against lefties. If that wasn't enough of a sign of the Apocalypse, Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a homer. Make sure to tell your family you love them.
The Reds swept their division foes by beating up on Chris Carpenter. Ramon Hernandez continued his hot streak with another home run. Aroldis Chapman continued his "I'm broken" streak walking 4 in a third of an inning. GPS couldn't help him find the strike zone right now.
Dan Uggla hit the go ahead homer in the 8th inning to ruin Roy Halladay's day. Halladay was a mess anyway tossing all 8 innings but allowing 8 hits, 3 runs and 2 walks while only striking out 7. He should be ashamed of himself.
Ryan Braun (2-3, 2 BB, HR) bailed out Zack Grienke (5 IP, 6 H, 5 ER). I'm almost 83% sure that the Pirates Andrew and Daniel McCutchen are not related.
Mariners, Indians PPD. This is the M's new strategy for the season. Rain outs.


New Year is a time of reflection... January is a time for planning. Have you figured out what goals you would like to achieve? Have you figured out what goals you will or need to achieve?
I wanted to reach out to you one last time. Please see my previous email below, if I don't hear back from you, I'll assume my suggestion isn't of interest.
Thank you for your time, apologies if I've been a nuisance at all.
I appreciate you're busy but I just wanted to follow up on the email I sent you the other day. I've included it below for reference and if you have any questions please let me know.
I've got something which I think might interest you given you've shared The E Myth in the past (http://www.beingbusiness.co.uk/blog-for-women-in-business/acheive-your-goals-in-2016).
The E Myth is undoubtedly one of the must-read books of our time for entrepreneurs but there are 14 others which we think make for essential reading.
I wondered if perhaps you could share a link to our list alongside The E Myth so any of your visitors looking for additional book recommendations have quick access to a curated list?


Parents, please volunteer and help each other make our program better!! We are an amazing community of families that believe in the success of mandarin immersion for our children. Let's share this among one another.
Answer mentee questions and direct him/her to right reference of information or contact via preferred form of contact – email, phone, or face-to-face.
What does it mean to be a Mentee?
Let's have an awesome school year!
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Protesters marched along Rama IV Road to the German Embassy in Thailand on Monday to demand Berlin authorities to investigate the matter of His Majesty the King living in their country.
The march started from the Samyan intersection bound for the German embassy on Sathorn Road around 5:00 p.m. It was led by the pro-democracy movement.
They said earlier that the objective of the demonstration was to request the German government, through its embassy in Thailand, to investigate whether the king had violated the sovereignty of the nation by exercising his power on German soil.
Through its Facebook account, the United Front of Thammasat University and Demonstration published a statement on the matter.
In addition to clarifying the reason for the request to the German embassy, it stated that the rally outside the embassy would show the intention of the protesters, to restore a "truly" constitutional monarchy in Thailand.
Besides, the embassy said in a written statement released Monday that it was willing to receive the petition and take it to Berlin on the condition that the protesters pass it on peacefully.
The statement read: "As in previous instances, the embassy is ready to receive messages addressed to the Federal Government, conveyed in a peaceful manner".
Protesters march along Rama IV Road to the German Embassy | FREEYOUTH
The entity also stressed the need for the protesters to gather peacefully and asked the Government to protect their premises under the Vienna Convention.
The demonstration ended around 9:00 p.m, when a co-leader told his followers that the embassy had agreed to send their letter to the German Government.
A demonstration in support of the monarchy also took place this Monday in front of the embassy. It ended after presenting a letter addressed to the ambassador.
It is the first time in modern Thai history that a foreign government has been targeted by anti-government protesters.
Meanwhile, authorities started the special session of parliament on Monday. Opposition leader Sompong Amornwiwat intervened, saying that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha should resign as protesters planned to target the German embassy with a petition deemed "unprecedented."
Moreover, he called for the release of the detained activists to try to end the standoff.


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Nice pictures today, Mel! I like the stash of library books - they are so colourful and jazzy, that it makes you want to read them all right away!
Sigh. Someday I may have time to read again, right? I just dare not start a book because I get so addicted to the pleasure of reading I neglect everything else! Lizzie is right, the colors of the books are fantastic.
I always like photos of books (of course!). And I like the forum photo to document time spent on this fun class - I am learning so much, glad I decided to jump in.
I've read that Mara Jade book!
Lovely photographs as always ... your details are always fascinating.


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Getting to know Caitlyn Jenner | Inquirer Entertainment
Getting to know Caitlyn Jenner
By: Nestor U. Torre
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:24 AM August 01, 2015
ROCERO. Fil-Am transgender model and friend gives Caitlyn a helping hand
FOR 65 long years, Bruce Jenner made quite a stellar life and career for himself, as a sports champion, celebrity and stepfather to the stars (the Kardashians). But, as he now reveals it, there was always something wrong, something missing.
Finally, only a few years ago, Bruce decided to face up to it: Physically, he was male, but psychologically, he felt female.
Thus began the long, slow process of changing his body to suit his "soul"—a process that finally culminated in his "second birth" early this year, no longer as Bruce, but as her real self, Caitlyn Jenner.
The major transformation hit the public with a shock, and hurt some members of Jenner's family—especially ex-wife Kris, who felt that her former marital partner should have included her much more in his radical plans—after all, they most affected her!
But, all or most has since been forgiven, so Caitlyn has become Jenner's reality and true identity today—not just as a private individual, but as the star of the new reality series, "I Am Caitlyn"—and the rallying figure for the increasing "transgender" community in the States!
At first, Caitlyn wasn't quite sure how the public would accept her, so her first steps were gingerly, at best. With a lot of help from a veritable platoon of stylists and other image mavens, she made her debut by way of a long Vanity Fair interview and pictorial, appearing as a woman—in revealing undergarments, yet—for the first time.
After all, at 65, she was no spring chicken, so looking good could be a big problem, especially if she wanted people to exclaim, "Hey, that's a great-looking dame!"
Happily, that turned out to be the case, for the most part, although Caitlyn still has her detractors. But, the next problem was, what to do after the very carefully staged pictorial, when her series started airing and she had to be seen in public in less than "idealized" circumstances.
Well, it looks like Caitlyn has decided to go for it and "dare" the public to take her as she really is—and again, most people continue to approve.
What's next? Well, what about Caitlyn's first date—will it be with a man, or with a woman? —We'll have to wait and see, won't we?
It's a good thing that Caitlyn is being helped, not just by her many stylists, but also by some similarly transgender friends, who have been there, done that, and can thus warn her about the pitfalls along the way to genuine gender freedom.
Interestingly, one of her inner circle of friends just happens to be a Fil-Am, well-known model Geena Rocero, who came out some years ago and has since enjoyed great success not just as a model, but also as a transgender exemplar and advocate.
In fact, Geena has been so successful and visible that she's even ended up in the pages of Vogue, setting a high standard of beauty and charismatic projection for models and celebrities of any gender.
Asked about her "mentoring" friendship with Caitlyn Jenner, Geena shares, "She's coming along quite well—but, I really hope that we will soon move beyond lamenting all those years she 'lost' as a man, and celebrate what she has become now." Caitlyn fervently seconds her friend's motion, that's for sure!
Interest in Vi's prospects escalates
TAGS: Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Celebrity, Entertainment, Geena Rocero, Hollywood, I am Caitlyn, Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Reality TV, transgender


The festive season is upon us and nothing says Christmas quite like a red lip. Use our guide to find the perfect lipstick shade to see you through all of your December parties!
Records of lipstick date back 5,000 years to 2,984 BC. Mesopotamian women crushed semi-precious jewels and used the dust to decorate their lips, but, it is the ancient Egyptians who made the most advancements with early day lipstick. Initially, they coloured their lips with a purple-red dye from seaweed combined with iodine and bromine, until they realised that it was making women extremely ill. A change of ingredients was needed and so Cleopatra found that by crushing carmine beetles and ants, she would be left with a dye that gave her the perfect red lip.
Since the ancient Egyptian times, red lipstick has been a symbol of power, strength and sensuality. There have been many women throughout time who are famous for their love of a red lip product. From Queen Elizabeth I to Marilyn Monroe, even Taylor Swift has sung about her favourite lip colour. Nowadays, it's a makeup bag favourite by women everywhere and was named the official lip colour of New York City in the International Lipstick Colours of the Year report.
Sales of lipstick increase when the weather is dull, with 90% of women using the product to feel better about themselves. Lipstick is a quick feel-good fix and is arguably the most important item in a woman's makeup bag. A coat of black mascara, winged liner and a slick of red lippy creates the perfect party look. It's simple yet sophisticated, classic yet chic, but what shade of red should you choose? With true reds, pinky-reds, burnt oranges, brick red and plum shades, there really is something for everyone.
If you have porcelain skin, you can get away with most red lip shades. Your skin is a blank canvas and so a simple eye look ensures that all attention goes to your lips. Blue toned, cherry reds work especially well, but, you remember to warm up your cheeks to avoid looking washed out!
If you have fair skin, your perfect red lip will depend on your hair colour. Bright reds with blue undertones add vibrancy to those with fair skin and light hair. The hints of coolness from the blue tinge counteract any signs of redness in the skin.
Red hair and pale skin already creates an unusual and dramatic look. Add to the drama with coral and orange toned reds and bring a flash of colour to milky skin.
If you have dark hair, cool toned reds work best. Deep plum and cherry tones create a classic yet intense look, further intensified by your dark locks.
Medium skin includes olive, beige and bronze tones. Those with medium skin tan easily and can pull off almost all red shades. Mix up your lippy depending on the season, orange toned reds will enhance your tan through the summer while deeper shades add richness come winter.
If you have blonde hair you can wear most shades. Bold and even neon shades work with blonde hair and medium skin tones without being overpowering whilst brick and rust tones compliment olive and yellow skin.
Bold, bright reds can lose their drama when worn by someone with olive skin and dark hair but deep, rich burgundies and plums add a hint of luxury to a makeup look.
Plum and wine based reds flatter dark skinned ladies. Combined with dark eyes it creates a luxurious, gothic yet glamourous look. Bright, tomato red shades add a pop of colour against dark skin and hair and ensure that all of the attention is on your lips.
Orange and coral tones reflect light and will give lips a fuller, poutier appearance. Orangey tones also work well with lighter hair and help to leave your skin looking golden and glowing.
For the festive season, a red lip is as essential as a little black dress. As with your outfit, try before you buy to make sure that you're buying the perfect shade. When testing lipstick it's tempting to swipe product across the back of your hand, however, your fingertips have the closest undertones to your lips. Test lipstick by applying it to your fingertip with the same pressure that you'd use on your lips. If you like the colour, that's the one, if the colour doesn't show, choose the next darkest shade!
Always moisturise your lips with a sheer balm before applying red lipstick to avoid cracks and flaking. Lining your lips first with a similar coloured liner gives you a crisp, sharp outer line and will prevent bleeding and feathering. Once applied, blot with a tissue and tap translucent powder over the top to make your pout last all night!


When you think of business portrait pictures it conjures up an image of a stuffy corporate head and shoulder shot for the annual report or a profile photograph that sits alongside a regular news story. In this digital age social media has become such a major part of our lives, and as a consequence we all have online profiles that require portrait pictures. You may be an active contributor to your own blog or make regular contributions as an industry expert to relevant blogs, which also need your profile picture.
The days of solemn, unflattering corporate portraits are over. Today's business leaders use portraits that are full of character – inspiring, exciting, persuasive and credible portraits that tell a story about the person and their business. They use pictures that are in tune with the content of the story. For example, if you are a structural engineer commenting on the impact of fracking on the stability of a building located above the drilling location you don't want to use the picture of you with a big smile on your face that you had taken for your Facebook page, or the "selfie" that you took at a recent music festival!
Many of you will get a friend or colleague to take your picture so how do you ensure you get it right? Here are 5 tips that will help.
1. Make sure you are looking into the page. Check where your image is going to be used. Most social media pages tend to put your photo on the left of the page so you need to be looking from right to left, and have your shoulders turning the same way. Looking straight down the camera lens is usually best as you are then looking straight at the person viewing your photo.
3. It is best to have the camera slightly higher than the subject. No-one wants to see up your nose!
4. Lighting is perhaps the most tricky thing to deal with. You are not posing for a hollywood style model shoot so the safest options are to have the light in front of you or behind you. If you have the light in front of you, then you may end up squinting so try to be in a position where it is not shining straight into your eyes. Having the light at a 45º angle works well. Light from the side will create shadows on your face, which will sometimes look great but is very difficult to get it right so leave that to a professional. Standing in a doorway can be an easy solution to get good lighting. Soft diffused lighting like you get on a cloudy day is always more flattering than bright sunlight.


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Desktop management and virtualization software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced Wednesday.
The deal closed in January.
Citrix plans to fold Paglo's services into its own Citrix Online remote support and IT management services, under the new name GoToManage, according to Elizabeth Cholawsky, Citrix vice president for product services.
GoToManage will be an adjunct to Citrix Online's GoToAssist, software that allows administrators to remotely log into and troubleshoot desktop computers.
"We saw an adjacent market to remote support that was very interesting to us," Cholawsky said, noting that a recent customer survey had found that 66 percent of Citrix Online users wanted monitoring services. "We decided that having capabilities for us in that arena would be a great strategic move for Citrix Online."
Paglo offers inventory management capabilities as a service. A crawler with log-in credentials collects performance and configuration information about the servers, routers and desktop computers on a network, conveying the data to Paglo's data center.
Users can then log into a Web portal to find the information aggregated and summarized in various forms, said Brian de Haaff, who was the CEO of Paglo.
Paglo also has a number of other technologies, including software for managing VMware virtual machines.
Cholawsky promised that current Paglo customers would see no disruption in service.


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Israel's Keshet International has seen its TV production and distribution business blossom as the demand among global TV buyers for original content has skyrocketed. But that growth has made the market for producing content more competitive, not less, in the eyes of Keshet International CEO Alon Shtruzman.
In the latest episode of Strictly Business, Variety's weekly podcast featuring conversations with industry leaders about the business of entertainment, Shtruzman discusses the expansion of opportunities as streaming platforms in the U.S. and other major territories drive an expansion of the overall marketplace for TV content.
"It's a complete sea-change. The way shows are being commissioned and being produced and being watched. Every aspect of the eco-system as we knew it has changed," Shtruzman says.
Based in Los Angeles, Shtruzman runs the international production and distribution arm for Israel's dominant Keshet Media Group, headed by Avi Nir. Keshet International (KI) sells programs and formats that come off Keshet's top-rated commercial TV network in Israel, as well as a range of other projects. Nir recruited Shtruzman to KI in 2012, after the latter established himself as an entrepreneur and executive with a number of Israeli media firms since the 1990s. He also served a stint with Fox International Channels.
In assessing the contemporary sales environment, Shtruzman notes that buyers in emerging territories like Vietnam and Cambodia of late have become aggressive in purchasing original content as platforms multiply. But that same dynamic means that more producers from territories outside the U.S. and U.K. are becoming competitive with formats and series of their own. Keshet's own story, fueled by with hits like "Homeland" and the "Rising Star" talent competition franchise, is a testament to the opening of the marketplace to new entrants.
Keshet's portfolio has reached a size and scale that could make it an attractive target for content-hungry conglomerates at a time of heated media M&A discussions. Shtruzman was cautious in addressing the potential for high-level dealmaking in Keshet's future. He pointed to Keshet's recent moves to scoop up smaller production banners including Germany's Tresor TV Produktions and the U.K.-based incubator Greenbird Media.
"At the moment we're buyers. Maybe at some point we'll be sellers," he says.


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Joseph's House
Compassionate care for the homeless and dying since 1990
Residential Respite Care
Year-Long Volunteers
Persimmons for Watt
A Mindful Monday
Mercy for Alfredo
Lisa and Pete
Self-Blessing
D.C. Sets Three-Year Timeline To End AIDS Epidemic, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, December 1, 2016
On World AIDS Day, Joseph's House's Scott Sanders joins Kojo to discuss the District's efforts to stem HIV and the challenges it still faces in supporting residents currently living with the diagnosis.
The Cost of Living, Washington City Paper, December 14, 2015
"With a warm, clean, safe place to stay, patients develop both a social safety net and a sense of personal pride. They feel motivated to recover and return to independent living."
Living for the dying – the remarkable story of Joseph's House, Faith & AIDS 2012 Blog, July 2012
"'The caring attitude of staff is reflected in the hundreds of photographs of residents who have died that line the house's walls. It's a way of remembering those whose greatest fear is of being forgotten,' remarks [David] Hilfiker."
The House that Love Built, Poz, March 2012
"Still, nothing really prepares us for death. Though many of us have seen friends and lovers die of AIDS, we are loath to admit that it is still happening. And often we cannot be there to bear witness to the dying, to be there for them, to hold their hands and love them as best we can until the light is gone from their eyes—especially when they're strangers. Places like Joseph's House undertake this work for us."
The Other City
Film Review, The Washington Post, September 2010
A House for Healing,The Washington Post, October 2009
"If you had seen us together, you'd have thought we were friends forever, for a long, long time and we just met each other. This is really hard. It's not hard because she's gone. It's hard because I'm going to miss my friend." Leshelle Hicks, former resident.
Wasting Away: DC's AIDS Nonprofits Struggle to Provide for Patients (Photo Gallery), The Washington Post, October 2009
Inside Joseph's House, The Washington Post, June 2008
"'I didn't want people to have to earn love. I wanted it to be given freely, unconditionally, no strings attached,' [Patty] Wudel said. 'At Joseph's House, people are cared for in a way that we all very much hope that we'll be cared for as we die. I hope that I will not be abandoned emotionally or otherwise as I'm dying.'"
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, November 2006
Watch Homeless Hospice on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
"So many people wake up in the morning and are grateful that God woke them to live another day. And kind of looking at their day from my point of view — feeling well and healthy — their day looks pretty rough. But it makes me think and wonder about my own gratitude for being alive in my own life." – Patricia Wudel, Executive Director
Joseph's House
1730 Lanier Place NW
202-265-7174 (house)
info@josephshouse.org


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		$this->Language->Load('jira');
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