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Las Secretarías Regionales Ministeriales de Salud o Seremi de Salud, tienen como misión asegurar a todas las personas el derecho a la protección en salud ejerciendo las funciones reguladoras, normativas y fiscalizadoras que al Estado de Chile le competen, para contribuir a la calidad de los bienes públicos y acceso a políticas sanitario-ambientales de manera participativa, que permitan el mejoramiento sostenido de la salud de la población, especialmente de los sectores más vulnerables, con el fin de avanzar en el cumplimiento de los Objetivos Sanitarios de la década. Este servicio funciona en cada región de Chile,  través de la Secretaría Regional Ministerial. También entregan espacios formales de participación ciudadana, entre ellas "El Consejo Asesor Regional de Salud", integrado por actores y sectores relevantes de diferentes ámbitos de cada región. Fueron establecidas por medio de la Ley N° 19937 de 2004.

Organización

Los ministerios se desconcentran territorialmente mediante secretarías regionales ministeriales, las cuales a su vez se dividen en 15 secretarías regionales ministerial orientados en diferentes índoles, una de ellas es la Secretaría Regional Ministerial de Salud.

 Secretarías Regionales Ministeriales de Salud (SEREMI de Salud): Existen 16, uno en cada región, y sus titulares en la actualidad son:

Funciones
De acuerdo a las disposiciones establecidas en la ley 19.937 sobre Autoridad Sanitaria, las Secretarías Regionales Ministeriales de Salud (Seremi) tienen una serie de funciones, de acuerdo con las normas y políticas dictadas por el Ministerio de Salud.

 Velar por el cumplimiento de las normas, planes, programas y políticas nacionales de salud fijados por la autoridad. Asimismo, adecuar los planes y programas a la realidad de la respectiva región, dentro del marco fijado para ello por las autoridades nacionales.

 Ejecutar las acciones que correspondan para la protección de la salud de la población de los riesgos producidos por el medio ambiente y para la conservación, mejoría y recuperación de los elementos básicos del ambiente que inciden en ella, velando por el debido cumplimiento de las disposiciones del Código Sanitario y de los reglamentos, resoluciones e instrucciones sobre la materia, para lo cual se encontrará dotado de todas las facultades y atribuciones que el Código Sanitario y demás normas legales y reglamentarias sanitario ambientales le confieren, de conformidad con lo previsto en el Artículo 14C.

 Adoptar las medidas sanitarias que correspondan según su competencia, otorgar autorizaciones sanitarias y elaborar informes en materias sanitarias. Las normas, estándares e instrumentos utilizados en la labor de fiscalización, serán homogéneos para los establecimientos públicos y privados.

 Velar por la debida ejecución de las acciones de salud pública por parte de las entidades que integran la red asistencial de cada servicio de salud y, en su caso, ejecutarlas directamente, o mediante la celebración de convenios con las personas o entidades que correspondan. En el ejercicio de estas funciones, coordinará aquellas acciones de promoción y prevención cuya ejecución recaiga en los servicios de salud.

 Mantener actualizado el diagnóstico epidemiológico regional y realizar la vigilancia permanente del impacto de las estrategias y acciones implementadas.

 Colaborar, a solicitud de cualquier organismo público del sector salud, en la implementación de procedimientos de recepción de reclamos. Los procedimientos a que se refiere este numeral deberán ser concordados con los mencionados organismos, conforme lo determine el reglamento.

 Cumplir las acciones de fiscalización y acreditación que señalen la ley y los reglamentos y aquellas que le sean encomendadas por otros organismos públicos del sector salud mediante convenio.

 Evaluar el nivel de cumplimiento de las metas fijadas a las entidades administradoras de salud municipal y sus establecimientos, conforme a lo dispuesto en el artículo 4º de la ley Nº 19.813.

 Organizar, bajo su dependencia y apoyar el funcionamiento de la Comisión de Medicina Preventiva e Invalidez.

 Las demás que establezcan las leyes y reglamentos.

Artículo 14 C.- Serán de la competencia del Ministerio de Salud, a través de las secretarías regionales ministeriales, todas aquellas materias que corresponden a los servicios de salud, sea en calidad de funciones propias o en su carácter de sucesores legales del Servicio Nacional de Salud y del Servicio Médico Nacional de Empleados, y que no digan relación con la ejecución de acciones integradas de carácter asistencial en salud, sin perjuicio de la ejecución de acciones de salud pública conforme al número 4 del artículo anterior. En relación con las materias que trata este artículo, los secretarios regionales ministeriales de salud deberán ajustarse a las normas técnicas y administrativas de carácter general que imparta el Ministerio de Salud, ya sea a nivel nacional o regional.

Artículo 14 E.- Existirá en cada secretaría regional ministerial un Consejo Asesor, el que tendrá carácter consultivo respecto de las materias que señale esta ley y sus reglamentos y las que el secretario regional ministerial le someta a su consideración. Los integrantes del Consejo Asesor no percibirán remuneración por su participación en él. El secretario regional ministerial deberá convocar al Consejo en el primer trimestre de cada año con el objetivo de informar acerca de la gestión del año anterior y la planificación del año correspondiente. Un reglamento regulará la forma de nombrar a los integrantes, el procedimiento para adoptar acuerdos y las demás normas que sean necesarias para su funcionamiento.

Referencias

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Gobierno y administración regional de Chile
Salud en Chile


It was an early Sunday morning on the 1st of October(2017). Pariksheet and I were out on the streets of Nha Trang, looking for a bakery or a store. We looked around a couple of streets only so as to not get lost ourselves. All the bakeries and stores were still shut.
Finally, there was one general store in the corner that was open. We bought a muffin and a candle from the store and hushed back to the room.
A couple of hours earlier, we had arrived in the coastal city of Nha Trang. We walked to our stay, Coconut Hostel, which was only a couple of blocks away. All I could think of was the comfortable beds when compared to the seats of the Open Bus from Mui Ne to Nha Trang. After the refreshing bath, I quickly remembered what the date was and that led to our brief flurry on the streets. It was Vijay's b'day and we had completely forgotten to wish him.
Once Vijay came out of the bath, we surprised him with the little muffin and the candle. We all wished him a happy birthday and huddled for a group picture. Our plan for today was to dive in the famed waters of Nha Trang Bay. The hostel staff aided us in renting two wheelers for a reasonable price, which we used to reach the Nha Trang Beach.
The scooters took some adjusting to. The driving side is on the right side of the road in contrast to the left hand drive on Indian roads. Also, my scooter was geared one and the gear system was cyclic gear shift, i.e. from 1 to 4 and back to 1 after fourth in the forward direction. A short and puzzling, yet fun ride got us to the beach where we looked for diving centers.
It was around 11am and this was the fourth diving center that we were enquiring at. The answer was the same here too. All the centers said that the boats have already left for the dives and we were late. I decided to give one last try at another shop at the end of the street. The lady agreed for a single casual dive and said it would cost extra for the speedboat as other boats have all left. We took the deal after a bit of a bargain.
We went back to the beach where we boarded a speedboat. To our right we could see the Vinpearl Cable Car, a cable car system over the ocean to reach the Vinpearl Amusement Park on Hon Tre island. The speedboat came to a halt amongst a few boats. The speedboat driver came to an agreement with one of the boat staff and these guys would be taking us for a dive.
We donned the wet suits and gear provided and got into the cerulean waters. This was my second dive, the first being in the Andaman Islands. Altough the friendly staff tried to explain us the basics with their limited command over English, I would recommend to try your first dive with someone who can clearly make you understand all the guidelines. The water was not as clear as the Andamans but I liked the way my trainer showed me around the reef. The Reef was quite abundant with corals and rich marine life. I had come back to the peaceful blue world where all i could hear were air bubbles as i exhaled. The trainer encouraged me to get a feel of the different sponges which felt soft. Variety of colorful fish looked inquisitively at the visitors. It felt like time stood still and I could do this all day.
Even though it was a great dive, the relatively clearer waters of the Andamans , made the Nha Trang dive feel a little less satisfying. A couple of them who had this as their first diving experience found it amazing. I, on the other hand, wondered if I would get to see a sea turtle in my next dive in another part of the world. We dried off on the boat and took the speedboat back to the harbour. We took a Vinasun taxi to the beach, where our scooters were parked and headed back to the hostel.
Off to the sea bed!!
Vinpearl Amusement park across the sea!!
The girls decided to explore something nearby as we guys headed out on our scooters to the Oceanographic Museum. It was around 5 pm and we wanted to see the place before it closed down for the day. There were no other tourists other than us at that time and we took our time in viewing each section. The museum is housed in a French colonial building and spans two floors. We started from the open ponds; one for turtles and the other two for different kinds of fish which included a couple of reef sharks. I leaned in to feel the hard shell of turtle, which didn't seem to mind the touch.
In the ground floor, we came across a number of glass tanks that contained wide variety of colorful fishes , crustaceans , mollusks , anemones , corals and see weeds. Each tank was labelled with both names in English and Vietnamese for locals and tourists alike and also its origin and characteristics. The upper floor housed thousands of specimen preserved in glass jars. It also showcased the history of fishing in the country in the form of fishing equipment and local boats. A number of skeletons are also featured here, in particular, the skeleton of a Humpback whale which was around 18 ft in length and the skeleton of a dugong.
White sandy beaches, clear waters and rich coral life make Nha trang the best spot on the Vietnamese mainland for beach lovers and diving enthusiasts. The city is not too crowded like Saigon or Hanoi and provides a relaxing atmosphere. The delicious seafood is not to be missed.


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HomeOSPR News Montebello Sensitive Attacks Silenced
Sensitive Attacks Silenced
The San Luis Obispo Tribune, September 30, 2007
By Dan Krieger
The Untied Press teletype read: "The S.S. Story outran a torpedo attack off Point Arguello. The S.S. Larry Doheny was shelled by an enemy submarine but reached port safely. Press reports of the sinking of the S.S. Montebello are confirmed."
Wartime reports for Dec. 24, 1941 appeared in the Port Arthur (Texas) News, the Sheboygan (Michigan) Press, and the San Francisco Call. Copies of the Call were quickly rounded up by federal agents.
A full report of the early morning sinking of the Union Oil tanker S.S. Montebello appeared in a special edition of this newspaper, then called the Telegram-Tribune, on Dec. 23, 1941, the afternoon the Montebello sank.
San Luis Obispo was sufficiently isolated, so no effort was made to confiscate the papers.
Union Oil Co. eventually sued the federal government for failing to protect maritime shipping in U.S. coastal waters.
Unocal lost the case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals when the government proved that the Montebello actually had hit the ocean bottom lightly more than three miles off the Cambria coast in international waters.
The reports of these attacks and more than a dozen others were denied by federal authorities. No mention of the attacks will be found in the Navy Department's 15-volumne "History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II," edited by Samuel Eliot Morison.
Morison was a Harvard history professor who won two Pulitzer Prizes, on for a two-volume history of the voyages of Christopher Columbus entitled "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," and the other for a definitive biography of John Paul Jones. His students included members of the Roosevelt family and future President John F. Kennedy.
His naval histories have been praised by British historian Sir John Keegan as "the best history to come out of the Second World War." Keegan is considered one of the greatest living military historians.
Morison was commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the Navy when he began the history project. He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral (reserve). The frigate USS Samuel Eliot Morison was named in his honor, and a bronze statue of Morison stands near commonwealth Avenue in Boston.
Morison was criticized for his insensitivity to the indigenous people of the Americas and to the incredible cruelty of slavery in his two-volume "Growth of the American Republic," written with Henry Steele Commager.
This was the standard history textbook used during the 1950s and early '60s at colleges throughout America.
Most historians would agree that Morison's errors were products of his time and social status as a member of Boston's elite. But they also would argue that Morison tried to present facts as honestly as he saw them.
Why, then, does he not mention the submarine attacks along the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coast in the official naval history?
I asked this question to Arthur J. Marder, one of Morison's students who himself became a famous naval historian of the British and Japanese navies during the early 20th century.
Marder, then retired from UC Irvine, was not my teacher but had become my mentor through associations in the Conference of British Studies and the American Historical Association.
Marder respected me but thought this then-brash associate professor could learn a thing or two. He replied, "My goodness, haven't you hear of the 'clear and present danger test'?" He meant that you do not shout, "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
He claimed that disclosing the information would have been similar even after Japan's surrender, as America entered the Cold War, revealing American's total vulnerability in 1941.
The unsuccessful torpedoing of the Standard Oil Co. tanker H.M. Story off Point Arguello on Dec. 22, 1941, the attempted torpedoing and shelling of the Atlantic-Richfield tanker Larry Doheny on the evening of Dec. 22, and the sinking of the Montebello the next morning were all the work of the Japanese Navy's Submarine I-21, under the command of Captain Kanji Matsumura.
That sub and the I-17 that shelled a refinery, oil station and restaurant at Ellwood, 12 miles north of Santa Barbara, was part of the Japanese Navy's 1st Submarine Squadron that waited off the entrance to Pearl Harbor the evening of Dec. 6, 1941. Its mission was to destroy any American ships that tried to escape the aerial attack.
After the attack, the squadron was dispatched to our mainland shores. Here it sank several vessels, including the Montebello, and inflicted psychological damage.
Marder felt this information was too inflammatory for the American public to know until the 1960s.
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Another spaceship game has hit Google Play, but this isn't just your average Asteroids. With a perfect mix of good graphics, story and gameplay, Starfleet Omega is a true contender for what a space shooter should be.
Earth has been destroyed by alien terrorists and you are placed in command of a fleet of fighters. You must use them as best as you can to defeat the oncoming horde of enemy baddies while not letting them destroy the last bit of humanity. The game runs insanely smooth and for the price of free, is a must have for some. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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Often we sacrifice our own physical and emotional states for others and we end up feeling stressed. You have to make the time to take care of your own well-being. Many people feel that this is selfish, when in fact it's the most responsible thing to do when you have people who depend on you.
Do what you can, when you can to make a difference in the lives of others. Have an attitude of gratitude and pay it forward everyday. Whether it's a compliment or a grand gesture, make someone's day just because you can.
We only have one Earth. One planet that we ask so much of everyday. Be aware of ways you can help reduce your own impact and ways you can help protect our home.
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The Strictly Come Dancing star, 36, said she had been to a barber shop to get her hair cut but had been denied service because she was a woman. "I don't ever really do posts like this but I thought this was really important because this has never really happened to me before," she told her 161,000 Instagram followers, looking distressed. She explained she had her hair cut at the same shop before but, on this occasion, was told: "The owner doesn't allow women to get their hair cut here." Clearly upset, she said: "I felt really c**p because this has never really happened to me before.


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In this role, you'll work collaboratively to develop and implement data models that act as the eyes and ears of a complex business that spans e-commerce, supply chain, marketing, retail, customer service, product development, and more. Your efforts to collect, organize, and share data will impact nearly all of Team Warby and will be highly visible across the organization. Sound like the job for you? Keep reading!
Work collaboratively with a product manager, engineering manager, business stakeholders, and other engineers in an Agile environment
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4+ years of experience designing and deploying dimensional models
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Some Benefits And Perks Of Working At Warby Parker
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Flexible "My Time" vacation policy
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Free eyewear, plus discounts for friends and family
And more-just ask!
Warby Parker requires all newly hired in-person or hybrid employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by their start date. Warby Parker is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodation, as necessary with federal, state, or local law, to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated.
Warby Parker was founded with a mission: to inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose, and style.
We're constantly asking ourselves how we can do more and make a greater impact-and that starts by reimagining everything that a company and industry can be. We want to demonstrate that a business can scale, be profitable, and do good in the world-without charging a premium for it. And we've learned that it takes creativity, empathy, and innovation to achieve that goal.
Since the day we launched in 2010, we've pioneered ideas, designed products, and developed technologies that help people see. We offer everything our customers need for happier eyes at a price that leaves them with money in their pockets, from designer-quality glasses and contacts to eye exams and vision tests.
Ultimately, we believe in vision for all, which is why for every pair of glasses or sunglasses we sell, a pair of glasses is distributed to someone in need through our Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. Over eight million pairs of glasses have been distributed in over 50 countries; that means eight million people now have the glasses they need to learn, work, and achieve better economic outcomes.
At Warby Parker, you can look forward to company outings and events, volunteering and learning opportunities, and just great company filled with curious, kind folks. Dreaming up and sharing ideas aren't responsibilities reserved for certain teams or leaders; the challenge (a really fun one) of innovation is on all of our shoulders. Teammates can also connect around common interests, backgrounds, and identities, no matter their home base, through our various employee resource groups. (We're happy to say that the Human Rights Campaign has named us a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ employees!) That sense of community and belonging keeps us excited to walk through the door every day, wherever that door may be.
We're driven to continue building a workplace, based on inclusive behaviors and equitable systems, where all employees can bring their authentic selves, feel engaged, and share their perspectives as a valued member of Team Warby. Transparency is what we're all about, and our annual Impact Report and Racial Equity Strategy lay out how we're sticking to these values.
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British actor and comedian Stephen Fry revealed on Friday he has been battling prostate cancer, adding that he was currently "fit and well." The 60-year-old wrote on Twitter that over the last two months he had "been in the throes of a rather unwelcome and unexpected adventure." "I'm sorry I haven't felt able to talk about it (until) now, but here I am explaining what has been going on," he said, posting a link to a video message on his personal website.
Mr Fry said he underwent surgery to remove part of his prostate and lymph nodes in January, and "it all seemed to go pretty well."
"As far as we know it's all been got," he said, adding: "For the moment I'm fit and well and happy."
Mr Fry, who hosted last year's BAFTA film awards and pulled out of presenting this month's ceremony for the first time in years, described the cancer as an "aggressive little bugger."
He revealed it was discovered after visiting his doctor for a routine flu jab before Christmas.
Mr Fry, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing gay writer Oscar Wilde in the 1997 movie Wilde, said he had been staying out of the public eye as he continued to recover.
"I've been keeping my head down as much as possible because you want to get better without strangers sending you cards and letters because you have to reply to them all," he added.
Mr Fry first made his name acting in cult British television shows Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, and has starred in more than two dozen films, as well as performing on stage, writing books and directing.


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Cherdyn (ruso: Чердынь) es una ciudad del krai de Perm, en Rusia. Está situada sobre el río Kolva, a 267km al norte de Perm. Su población se elevaba a 5.413 habitantes en 2008.

Historia

Cherdyn fue fundada en 1451 y fue hasta el siglo XIV capital del Gran Perm. El topónimo es una palabra komi que significa "desembocadura de un río". La información respecto a su capitalidad está basada en un estudio del historiador sueco Strinholm y del famoso autor ruso Nikolái Karamzín. Strinholm mencionó que la última expedición de vikingos escandinavos a Biarmia ocurrió en 1222. Cuatro barcos bien equipados de Haakon IV de Noruega quemaron las ciudades biarmias hasta los cimientos. Después de esto el comercio de pieles entre el Gran Perm y Europa Occidental sólo era posible por territorio de la República de Nóvgorod rusa, que se había convertido en dueña del norte de Rusia.

Después de la centralización de los principados de Rusia llevada a cabo por los Grandes Duques de Moscú, los príncipes de Perm, que ya tenían nombres rusos, se convirtieron también en vasallos de ellos. Así la tensión entre Nóvgorod y Moscú fue creciendo hasta desencadenar en una guerra en 1471, tras la cual la República de Nóvgorod fue anexada al Principado de Moscú. Al año siguiente, 1472, Cherdyn, Pokchá, y otras ciudades del Gran Perm, serían parte del precio de la conquista. Los moscovitas construyeron una plaza fuerte en Pokchá (ruso: Покча), a siete kilómetros al norte de Cherdyn, pero fue quemada por tribus indígenas a principios del siglo XVI. Recibe el estatus de ciudad en 1535. Fue punto de partida de la ruta de Cherdyn (Чердынская дорога) hasta que Artemi Babínov abrió un itinerario más meridional en 1598 (Бабиновская дорога, ruta de Babínov), para conectar los Urales con Siberia occidental. La ciudad pronto perdió su importancia en beneficio de Solikamsk, pero hasta el siglo XIX fue un punto importante de transbordo para los cereales, el pescado y las pieles.

Cherdyn es conocida también por haber sido el lugar de exilio del poeta Ósip Mandelshtam en 1934.

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Cultura y lugares de interés

La industrialización del siglo XX no afectó mucho a Cherdyn, lo que ha propiciado que el conjunto arquitectónico del siglo XVIII y XIX esté relativamente en buenas condiciones. Los edificios más importantes son la Iglesia del Apóstol Juan (Церковь Иоанна Богослова/Tsérkov Ioanna Bogoslova, 1705–1718), la Iglesia de la Transfiguración de Jesús (Церковь Преображения/Tsérkov Preobazhéniya, 1756), la Catedral de la Resurrección (Воскресенский собор/Voskresensi sobor, 1750-54) y los edificios del antiguo arsenal (primera mitad del siglo XVIII, el mercado (Gostiny dvor, 1857), así como la Duma municipal.

Existe un museo de historia local en Cherdyn.

Véase también

 Gran Perm

 Yugra

Enlaces externos y referencias

 Cherdyn en WikiMapia
 Informaciones sobre Cherdyn (en ruso)

Localidades del krai de Perm

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CBD's legal status is in a confusing gray area. The DEA has issued statements effectively clarifying that CBD is one of the illegal substances banned under the heading of the marijuana plant. However, state-level medical or recreational marijuana laws in 44 states protect and allow for the distribution of CBD. A federal court in California has even ordered the DEA to stop harassing medical marijuana providers who were operating legally under state law. The clash between federal and state laws is an ongoing issue with the movement to end the prohibition of cannabis in the United States, and increased awareness of CBD as a non-psychoactive substance with numerous medical applications seems to be a catalyst for change.
Just recently, the DEA officially moved some CBD-derived medicines to Schedule 5 from Schedule 1 on the Controlled Substances Act, however this ruling only applies to FDA-approved medicines. Currently, the GW Pharmaceuticals drug Epidiolex is the only CBD medicine approved by the FDA.
CBD's medicinal legal status in many states and the current climate of changing opinions about Cannabis's medicinal powers has resulted in a rush of products to market that are capitalizing on the hype. Under its mission statement of "protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs" the FDA has become involved in the struggle.
Since 2015 the FDA has sent 44 warning letters to various producers of CBD medicines, ordering them to stop marketing and advertising unapproved uses of CBD and in some cases revealing the products did not even include the advertised levels of CBD, occasionally none at all. As a federal agency, the involvement of the FDA further confuses the legal space of medicinal cannabis, especially after they argued for the de-scheduling of CBD in October 2018.
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CBD's non-psychoactive nature and proven therapeutic benefits indicate further potential, alongside other Cannabinoids. In the weakening climate of prohibition, it's important to begin to spread information and understanding about the difference between the broad use of "medical marijuana" and the specific medicinal cannabinoids like CBD and possible derivative drugs.
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Is there anyone out there near Arkansas that would do payments? My problem is I have one horse I love but would trade, but my husband said not to because he likes him. Lol I love my horse dearly he's just something that's not fitting at the moment. I would even rent a horse. If I made payments to buy I would want to take him/her to jackpots. I just need to know if anyone knows or would do payments. ????
Location: Kansas Can you not set aside money from each paycheck into a "horse fund?"
Normally payment plans kind of go south, not all, but it happens.


The Miller Gallery at Alvernia University unveiled its latest exhibit "Celebrating the Fabric of America From a Woman's Perspective" featuring the work of local artist Michele Byrne Art.
The Miller Gallery at Alvernia University unveiled its latest exhibit Tuesday titled Celebrating the Fabric of America From a Woman's Perspective. Located in Francis Hall, the gallery features oil paintings by local artist Michele Byrne.
All about unity, equality, and diversity, Byrne's work showcases women from all different backgrounds. Each painting is also joined by a ribbon, signifying the connection between them. "It shows how we are all just a small thread to this big human tapestry" says Bryne.
Byrne began the project last August and as she says "painting like a maniac" to have everything completed. Of the 16 paintings, 14 are models Byrne selected and 2 are of herself.
In addition to the gallery, Byrne is looking to continue her work by giving other women the opportunity to model and be seen in other areas. Michele Byrne's Celebrating the Fabric of America From a Woman's Perspective is on display at Alvernia University's Miller Gallery from January 14 – February 8.


No Pride in Genocide: LGBTQIA+ Solidarity with Black Power!
Comrades Joey Kadre and Sally Darity dragging imperialism to its grave!
I am a white person of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual) population in solidarity with Black Power.
Ever since I joined the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party, I am no longer an "activist" for "gay rights", but a solidarity force for the liberation of the African nation.
I was living in Oklahoma and organized around carving out social space for LGBTQIA+ people in a town that didn't always accept us.
I attended a university and hid away in the women's and gender studies department, writing papers theorizing oppression in the world. I then fled to Portland, Oregon where I knew I could feel safer as a queer person.
I came across Secretary General Gazi Kodzo's internet presence and found the Uhuru Solidarity Movement.
I began to understand that gender and sexuality issues are caused by colonialism, but impact black and brown communities at genocidal rates.
I also learned that the source of the oppression is the same system of parasitic capitalism, but that the system creates a different reality for the colonizer and the colonized.
For example, I had the resources to move to Portland, OR from Oklahoma to feel comfortable as a white queer person, but no African person can feel comfortable anywhere they are in the world.
No oppression can ever be solved completely until colonized people have complete power over their own lives and all resources and land returned.
Salute to Chairman Omali Yeshitela for creating the theory to understand even my oppression as a white queer person, as well as the solution to overturn it!
African Internationalism explains that before Europe assaulted Africa, Europeans were living under feudalism.
There were such little resources, that the ruling class/nobility hoarded these resources and created private property to be passed down genetically and not shared with the people en masse.
When Europe assaulted Africa, Europe brought itself out of feudalism and into capitalism, with the first commodity being African people.
This created the nuclear family that sustains capitalism. The entire concept of gender was created by and based on the premise of private property, which emerged from parasitic capitalism and the commodification of African human beings.
Gender and sexual identities were constructed to reinforce capitalist notions of property ownership.
What was known as the peasantry, people who were tied to the land they lived on and owned by the landlord, became the working class or middle class.
Even gender and sexuality non-conforming Europeans could gain enough resources to be accepted in subcultural spaces, such as the arts and sciences, or create these spaces themselves. All of this was at the expense of Africa and African people.
Every movement lead by white people has fought to make life better for that sector of the white population.
It doesn't fight to overturn the social system, but for that system to be more polite to that specific sector.
Simultaneously we see the opportunism of white led movements repeating the colonial history of stealing material goods to unite for equal rights as the oppressor.
In fact, it is the Black Power movement of the 1960s that spurred the movement for gay rights.
It wasn't until white people saw black people rising up against their own oppression that sectors of the white population began to fight for their rights.
Stealing tactics, ideology and slogans─black power became gay power and black liberation became gay liberation.
Yet the interests of working class African people were left behind and replaced with the interest of the white ruling class and petty bourgeoisie.
Genuine liberation of LGBTQIA white people is not in the system but in overturning it under the leadership of colonized people.
The African working class must lead because our relationship to African people is still parasitic, violent, and oppressive.
As white queers, we steal African/black culture, language, dance forms, art and call it queer.
Drag queens literally dress in black face and mock African women. We are the first to start the genocidal gentrification in African neighborhoods, making it comfortable for the rest of white society to colonize.
We steal an anti-colonial battle against the police lead by an African trans woman, Marsha P. Johnson, and use it as a "gay rights" incident to enter into imperialist institutions of marriage, the U.S. military, the police force etc.
The AIDS epidemic only became a national epidemic when it spread to the white gay population in the '80s.
African women are of the highest growing population who are HIV positive, yet all the resources for access to prevention and health care surrounding HIV/AIDS remain geared towards white gay men and inaccessible to the black community.
For the month of June, cities all over the country celebrate "Pride" by having imperialist corporate sponsored parades while hugging cops waving the rainbow flag.
White LGBTQIA people march proudly, while Africans can't walk down the street without the risk of police violence.
White LGBTQIA people dance in gay clubs to music while African trans women are incarcerated and murdered.
We celebrate while African people suffer at the hands of the State and the U.S. government.
As a white person who subscribes to African Internationalism, I have no pride in the genocide my white LGBTQIA+ community perpetuates.
We must overturn this relationship by getting under the leadership of the African working class and provide material solidarity through reparations.
Solidarity with black power is the only way we will overturn this system. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement is where we stand united against all oppression and leave no one behind, as all white-led movements have done to African people.
Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and pay reparations! It is our redemption, but also our liberator.
It separates us from our allegiance to the white ruling class and aligns us with the liberated future of the African working class where no one is oppressed!


Bangladesh ODI skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Tamim Iqbal were the last two members of the squad to reach the Scenic Hotel in Napier to join the team after a car journey of over six hours from Auckland yesterday.
It was the fear of flying in a small aircraft that compelled Tamim and Mashrafe to take the scenic route southeast from Auckland, where they reached Sunday and made the drive the following day.
The size of the aircraft did not much bother two other members of the side, Rubel Hossain and Mohammad Saifuddin, who reached Christchurch yesterday and changed flights in Wellington before finally arriving in Napier.
The city on New Zealand's eastern coast is currently preparing for the famous annual Art Deco Festival, to be held from February 13 to 17, which has its roots in a massive 7.9 Richter scale earthquake that destroyed most of the commercial heart of Napier on February 3, 1931.
The city was rebuilt in 1930s fashion and by the end of the decade Napier was the newest city carrying, and the Art Deco is held to celebrate the courage the city displayed during those hard times.
It is undoubtedly the best time for the city to host the first match of the three-match ODI series between New Zealand and Bangladesh, but for journalists travelling from Bangladesh it was a hassle to find accommodation, which at the moment is quite expensive.
Back at the Scenic Hotel, where the cricketers spent a rest day yesterday ahead of the first game tomorrow at McLean Park, Mahmudullah Riyad was roaming around the hotel lobby and was the first to welcome Mashrafe and Tamim when they reached yesterday afternoon.
In just a couple of hours, Mashrafe was outside the hotel again to meet his 2003 World Cup teammate, former Bangladesh opener Al Shahriar Rokon, who has been living in Napier for the past few years.
Famous for his love of 'adda' (chatting), Mashrafe immediately engaged Rokon and a few other expatriates in a lively conversation, answering queries from fans who eager to know about his experience of joining politics, Tigers' chances of winning their first ever international game against New Zealand in their own backyard, and many other topics.
When this journalist asked Mahmudullah about the unorthodox bowling action that he employed during warm-up match against New Zealand XI on Sunday, he said with a big smile: "Actually, I try that bowling action jokingly in the nets but that day a few of my teammates asked me to bowl with that action just once in the practice game, and I did it."
Tamim soon joined in the adda and shared his fear of flying in small aircrafts and to make him more uncomfortable, this journalist reminded him that the team would have to change flights in Wellington, which is notoriously windy, for the second ODI in Christchurch.
"I am not going to change flights. that too in Wellington. I would much rather make the journey by road or take a direct flight," Tamim said.
By then Sabbir Rahman, Liton Das, Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar and Shadman Islam returned to the hotel after dinner at a nearby Turkish restaurant in a relaxed mood.
Missing out, of course, was Shakib Al Hasan who was injured just before the crucial tour of New Zealand. It was a big blow for Bangladesh but with the full squad now in New Zealand, and heart of the team in Mashrafe present, the Tigers seems relaxed and confident of taking on the hosts as the preparation for the upcoming ICC World Cup in England truly gets underway.


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Amherst Students Demand That President Denounce Goofy Colonial Mascot by 5 p.m.
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
Nov 13, 20151:23 PM
Lord Jeff observes an Amherst football game.
Screenshot/YouTube via Daily Beast
All across the country right now college campuses are discussing serious issues involving the United States' history of racism. Troubling threats of violence have even led to arrests in Missouri, where it was confirmed this week that someone literally drew a swastika in a dorm bathroom using feces in October. It was thus a needed moment of comic relief to encounter this item on the list of demands that Amherst College protesters have made to the school's administration:
7. President Martin must release a statement by Friday, November 13th, 2015 by 5:00pm that condemns the inherent racist nature of the unofficial mascot, the Lord Jeff, and circulate it to the student body, faculty, alumni, and Board of Trustees. This will be followed up by the encouraged removal of all imagery including but not limited to apparel, memorabilia, facilities, etc. for Amherst College and all of its affiliates via a phasing out process within the next year.
Wow, Amherst's mascot is called "Lord Jeff." And to be clear, Lord Jeff is not a good mascot. In addition to looking like a colonial twerp (see above), Lord Jeff commemorates a man (Lord Jeffrey Amherst) who, according to the school's own website, "advocated biological warfare against Indians" via smallpox blankets. The school's female athletes are apparently called the "Lady Jeffs," which is both bizarre and retrograde. Lord Jeff—a bad mascot.
But it's also a little funny that someone is making a demand about the googly-eyed cartoon thing above that involves a 24-style ticking-clock scenario. "We will give you exactly four hours to wire 25 million Swiss francs into our Cayman Islands account and to criticize the mascot. This will be our last transmission. Do not contact the police."
See more of Slate's coverage of campus protests.


Pinger is doing the rounds of Twitterland at the moment. It's a service that allows you to send voice messages to one or a group of people anywhere from a local number. It's not new to be able to do this on some networks and some phones, but they've made it easy and cross-network and country.
They've presented it as a kind of voice-based text-messeging, but I can imagine it might get used like Twitter too.
On the plus side, I can imagine it would be very useful if you were trying to organise some kind of gathering, either impromptu or making changes to a previously organised one.
On the negative side I can imagine an increase in voice spam from either your friends or marketing baddies.


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JK Rowling Explores Harry Potter Grown Up in New Short Story
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The wizard and his compatriots tackle their biggest challenge yet- adulthood.
JK Rowling has offered fans a glimpse into the future of "The Boy Who Lived" by resurrected her hero for a new short story that reunites him with his old friends at a Hogwarts school reunion. The 1,500-word story has been published on the Pottermore [https://www.pottermore.com/en-us/] website, and is written from the point of view of Rita Skeeter, the journalist in charge of a gossip column found in the wizard newspaper The Daily Prophet. Set to the backdrop of a Quidditch tournament, the story notes that Harry (now 33) has silver streaks in his hair and still wears his glasses- which according to her are "better suited to a style-deficient 12-year-old".
Rowling describes aspects of Harry's new life by alluding to a mysterious cut over his cheekbone, which apparently signifies his membership to a top-secret group of wizards called the Aurors. The author also includes details about Hermione, Ginny, and Ron- who apparently left his job at the Ministry of Magic and may be dealing with mental disabilities.
Despite the piece focusing on the current state of the Wizarding World, it also seems to be a sarcastic and hardly concealed dig at the media by Rowling. In the piece, Skeeter writes, "One always hesitates to invade the privacy of young people, but the fact is that anyone closely connected with Harry Potter reaps the benefits and must pay the penalty of public interest." Back in 2011, the famous author appeared before the Leveson Inquiry and described in detail the level of intrusion she was currently experiencing by journalists and the press.
Give us your thoughts about Harry Potter's latest adventure in the comments.
Source: Pottermore [http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/harry-potter-grown-up-revealed-3826816]
Eiv
Can anyone actually find it?
Eiv said:
You have to have an account on Pottermore in order to read the entire thing.
Jadwick
You have to sign up for an account on the website.
Alternatively some one figured out that no one wants to make a once-off account just to read a short story;
http://www.today.com/books/read-j-k-rowlings-new-post-latest-harry-potter-gossip-1D79887288
Jadwick said:
Thanks for this. Decided to upload it to my guilds server as a text file too.
http://www.tbhorder.com/data/pfs/3357-QuidditchWorldCup.txt
JoshuaMadoc
33 and already having streaks of silver on his hair? Does Rowling live her life being surrounded by men suffering from rapid aging?
JoshuaMadoc said:
Yup, Scottish people
PS: I am one.
Milten
It was a fun read, but since when is a fake news article a short story?
Skeleon
Oi, I'm 28 and have a couple of grey hairs, albeit not actual streaks as yet. It's pretty common, actually. That said, he might also have suffered some spell damage or whatever that causes it in him.
I'm more confused by the bit about Ron. Dealing with mental disabilities? As in, helping people? Or is he the one having the disabilities, which is more what it sounds like? Guess I'll have to read the thing, but if it's the latter, it only further solidifies the impression that she didn't really like Ron much anymore.
DaWaffledude
Skeleon said:
I'm more confused by the bit about Ron. Dealing with mental disabilities? As in, helping people? Or is he the one having the disabilities? Guess I'll have to read the thing, but if it's the latter, it only further solidifies the impression that she didn't really like Ron much anymore.
In-universe, the piece is by a character called Rita Skeeter, a tabloid journalist notorious for stirring up controversies over nothing to help drive sales.
Brian Tams
Considering how Harry spent the majority of his life trying to be murdered by a psuedo-immortal being, and then had to hoist both the wizarding world and the human world onto his back in order to save them, I wouldn't be shocked if he's aged from the immense amount of stress he was under.
kajinking
Brian Tams said:
Yeah look up before and after pictures of presidents to really see what stress does to someone over 8 years
Soviet Heavy
I'm pinning Ron's "mental disabilities" on Rita Skeeter's tabloid journalism.
james.sponge
Kinda hope for the second series of books in which Harry purges the world of muggles, come on you know you would like that
Thunderous Cacophony
Milten said:
It tells a story briefly; that's all I require to meet my criteria.
The part about Ron:
In the immediate aftermath of the battle Weasley, whose famous ginger hair appears to be thinning slightly, entered into employment with the Ministry of Magic alongside Potter, but left only two years later to co-manage the highly successful wizarding joke emporium Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Was he, as he stated at the time, "delighted to assist my brother George with a business I've always loved"? Or had he had his fill of standing in Potter's shadow? Was the work of the Auror Department too much for a man who has admitted that the destruction of He Who Could Not Be Named's Horcruxes "took its toll" on him? He shows no obvious signs of mental illness from a distance, but the public is not allowed close enough to make a proper assessment. Is this suspicious?
So yeah, she's just casting wild accusations and making assumptions to sell her version of the story. Rita Skeeter went to the Nancy Grace school of journalism.
OT: I enjoyed it. I remember being depressed by the epilogue and how trite it seemed, but this piece reminded me why I loved Rowling's work in the first place. I'm still undecided about the Fantastic Beasts movie, but it shows she still has good writing chops in her, at least.
Loethlin
Itchy Witch
Oh that *****! Not JK Rowling. The "story" was good, and reminded me why I hated hat ***** Rita Skeeter.
On the other hand, there is literally nothing new here. We knew all of what "Rita" writes there before. Waste of time, unless you like reading fake tabloids, or enjoy Rita Skeeter.
JaceArveduin
I'll have to read it sometime soon.
Thunderous Cacophony said:
I'm still undecided about the Fantastic Beasts movie, but it shows she still has good writing chops in her, at least.
That's about how I am with it, though I'm starting to wonder if she'll do the Tolkien route and just keep adding to the depth of her current world. Not sure how she'd handle it, but I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Roofstone
Nostalgic, very much so. I quite liked it!
sir neillios
Let it be. Maybe the magic has died, maybe she was never a particularly good writer, but the piece feels like a short work of fanfiction, and to be honest it might as well be. Word-of-god doesn't necessarily make for engaging reading. It just felt like a tickbox exercise to make as many nods as possible to characters from the books.
Not hating on HP or anything, I loved them when I was younger.
tzimize
While I dont care much about HP anymore (the series had a great ending full of closure) I give her my full support in taking a stab at a rotten media. I loathe all the celeb news the world is drowning in. The only thing I loathe more are the people gulping it in without a second thought.
james.sponge said:
One of the few interesting things to do further on in the series would be to corrupt a main character and tell that story. Your idea might sound like that, but honestly....that would just be telling the same story once more. Unless he actually succeeded...which is highly unlikely seeing as Voldemort was LOADS more powerful than Harry, and still failed.


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Ex-Cook at Wright Home Focus of Cookbook
By BETHANY BECKERSAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Oct 15, 2008 at 3:50 PM Oct 15, 2008 at 10:55 PM
During Henderson's 15 years with the Kaufmann family, she not only acquired experience in the kitchen but everyday life experiences to which few could compare.
Elsie Henderson began cooking for the wealthy Kaufmann family in 1947 at Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa.
Best known for its extraordinary craftsmanship, the home constructed by Frank Lloyd Wright has become one of the most renowned residences in the country.
Now, those experiences have been captured in a book, "The Fallingwater Cookbook: Elsie Henderson's Recipes and Memories" (University of Pittsburgh Press; $29.95), written by Suzanne Martinson with Jane Citron and Robert Sendall.
Fallingwater was constructed for department store mogul Edgar J. Kaufmann; his wife, Liliane; and their son, Edgar Jr. The Kaufmann family used Fallingwater as its weekend home and often had guests at the lavish residence.
Martinson tells of Henderson's time at Fallingwater, and of the eccentricities she encountered working for the family.
"Elsie's first day on the job, she was in the kitchen of Fallingwater, and she looked out her kitchen window and there were the Kaufmanns and their guests, stark naked under the waterfall," Martinson said.
Located on Bear Run Nature Reserve, the house "is a real monument to Frank Lloyd Wright's genius, in the way that it's designed, how it fits into the landscape - and the food reflected that. Kaufmann Sr. was a gentleman farmer. ... They used food grown in greenhouses, barns, everything was really fresh ... generally the food was very local, very fresh, and the very best quality. That was the same as the house. The house is made of the very best quality," Martinson said in an interview from her home in Kelso, Wash.
(The largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings is at Florida Southern College in Lakeland.)
Martinson spoke fondly of her time at Fallingwater with Henderson, saying that it was a "magical, magical" place. After speaking with Henderson more than 15 years ago, Martinson decided to turn her story into a book. Martinson tested Henderson's recipes herself, which took a bit of experimentation on her part.
"All the recipes came right out of her head. She just knew and she remembered how to make it. That was one of the challenges of writing a book like that. ... Sometimes if I was having trouble I would just call her up in my kitchen and say, 'Hey, Elsie, what's the dough supposed to look like?'" Martinson said with a laugh.
Henderson's personal recipes are not the only ingredients that give the book its unique flavor. It's filled with engaging anecdotes of the family that once occupied the historic residence.
"The house is on a creek called Bear Run, and the house actually flooded twice. Kaufmann Jr. was there, and the water started rising, rising, rising. And he came up into the living room and said, 'Elsie, Elsie grab the ham.' She said to him, 'At lunch you told me it was too salty.' And he looked at her and said, 'That was then, this is now,'" Martinson said.
"Elsie's recipes are really good comfort food. She used only the best ingredients. She had a lot of fun. She was very creative, and she still is."
Fallingwater provided the ideal setting for the collaborative process that would lead to telling Henderson's unique story.
"The majority is about Elsie, and the recipes in the first part of the book are all hers. ... (The) other half of the book is kind of more modern recipes," said Martinson.
"It's kind of like food then and now," Martinson said.
One might suspect that such a remarkable residence would have been equipped with an extraordinary kitchen.
"It's just a regular kitchen you would have in a weekend house. A 12-by-15-foot small kitchen, and then they had an extra refrigerator downstairs," Martinson said.


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UK: House of Lords Presents "Enormous" Challenges in Brexit Report
03 May 2017 --- A House of Lords report into Brexit strips down the mix of opportunities and challenges facing the UK's agricultural and food sectors which is says, are getting mixed messages from the government – and one of the most striking aspects of the report is the fact that up to 97% of food and drink exports from Britain could be at risk.
The much anticipated House of Lords report has today (May 3) been published and lays bare the UK's current huge over reliance on local EU markets, or at least the Single Market.
However, once the UK leaves the EU, Theresa May has already signalled that it will also leave the Single Market, which means a whole myriad of new trade deals need to be negotiated – and it's the detailed terms of these deals which are causing so much speculation and concern.
The worry is that negotiations between the UK government and the EU are strained and failing to reach a robust exit deal that goes in the favor of British industries, will hit multiple sectors extremely hard.
Industries could be looking at a future filled with complicated processes, high tariffs, and border controls. Meanwhile, the British government claims to be investigating a whole host of new opportunities in other international export markets, but there is such a lack of clarity on so many issues, speculation continuously mounts as to what Brexit will actually mean for those in the UK agri-food sectors and exporters currently over reliant on exporting within the European Union.
Today's Lords report on the implications of Brexit details this high dependency and includes comments and evidence given by a range of industry professionals.
On average around 80% of Britain's agricultural exports go to the EU, while according to evidence given by the Food and Drinks Federation to the Lords report, "the overwhelming majority of trade (over 70 per cent of exports and vital imports) is with EU member states—and 94% of imports and 97% of exports are with countries with which the EU has negotiated an FTA".
How could it impact ingredients and the Irish border?
The broader issue of supply chains present a unique challenge on the island of Ireland, according to the report.
Noel Lavery, Permanent Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland, tells the Lords: "The level of North/South integration in production/processing chains is considerable. Many agri-food businesses are structured and operate on a cross-border basis. This made them especially vulnerable to the imposition of customs controls and tariffs."
Ian Wright, Director General of the FDF, gave an illustration: "If you take one example—a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream—one in five cows in Ireland produces the milk and, if you are a Northern Irish cow, your milk crosses the border five times before it goes into the bottle. The idea that that would be subject to tariffs hither and yon is really very scary."
Speaking to FoodIngredientsFirst recently, the Kerry Group's new Taste and Nutrition Division President and CEO of Europe, Malcolm Sheil, explained how the company has already done much work planning for Brexit.
"When it comes to Brexit, we obviously have quite a large footprint in the UK. We have a global supply chain as well and are very used to sourcing different raw materials from around the world," Sheil says. "We have done a huge amount of scenario work on our customers' current business and how to help them through this period of uncertainty and post-Brexit. We are confident that we are very well positioned to be able to maneuver as required, depending on what the outcome of Brexit is. That is both for supplying back into the UK and for manufacturing in the UK and exporting back into mainland Europe," he adds.
Similar concerns surround other raw ingredients like flour and how Brexit will impact on the bakery sector.
The National Association of British and Irish Flour Millers (Nabim) has raised similar concerns for the cereal industry, highlighting the "significant volumes" of trade with the EU: "This trade (whether imports or exports) would not be maintained if tariffs were imposed. Therefore the health of the cereals sector on both sides of the channel depends on the retention of tariff free trade between the UK and the EU 27 once we leave the Union."
The dairy industry also has major concerns over the increase in costs concerning imports into the UK, as does the UK meat industry.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) cautioned that beef exports would also be at a disadvantage: "In most cases, [the EU] tariff equates to an addition of 50 per cent or more to the value of imports, which seriously impacts on the ability of imported beef to compete with EU meat." As for pigs: "The high level of tariffs effectively means that most non-EU pork is uncompetitive on the EU market.""
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union which was introduced in 1962 and has undergone several changes since then to reduce the cost (from 71% of the EU budget in 1984 to 39% in 2013) and to also consider rural development in its aims.
According to the report, CAP has played a fundamental role in regulating and supporting UK agriculture since the UK joined the then European Economic Community and has helped in facilitating free trade in agrifood products within the EU Single Market.
Many UK farmers rely on CAP funding to sustain their businesses, while wider rural communities also benefit from agri-environment schemes, rural investment and the sustained agricultural production in often remote areas.
However, CAP has come in for a lot of criticism over the years, often focused on how bureaucratic it is. On top of that, some in the agricultural industry believe CAP financial support has been misdirected and ineffective, therefore Brexit presents a real opportunity for the UK to review and adopt a policy for food and farming which regulates and supports the agricultural sector effectively, and which is tailored to the UK's unique farming landscape, says the report.
Talking specifically about the trade of agri-food products, the report says that once the EU framework has been scrapped and Britain is outside the EU, the UK must develop its own external tariffs. It is entirely possible the UK will be subject to higher external tariffs, "to the detriment of UK farmers and food manufacturers—unless a preferential trade agreement is agreed."
"The UK may also face non-tariff barriers when exporting agriculture and food products to the EU, resulting in delays at ports and additional administrative costs. Both tariff and non-tariff barriers could disrupt integrated supply chains between the UK and the EU, and pose a particular challenge for the agri-food sector in Northern Ireland," it adds.
"As it negotiates new trading relations with the EU and the wider world the Government will need to balance complex interests. It will need to secure a fair deal for farmers and maintain high standards for agricultural products in the UK, including farm animal welfare, while delivering affordable food to consumers and complying with WTO rules."
The report says the Government is currently giving "mixed messages" to the agricultural sector.
"Its vision for the UK as a leading free-trade nation with low tariff barriers to the outside world does not sit easily with its declared commitment to high quality and welfare standards in the UK farming sector. Combining and delivering these two objectives will be a considerable challenge," it adds.
"Agricultural policy therefore cannot be seen in isolation from trade. The terms of future free trade agreements will affect or limit domestic policies on regulation, funding and farming standards, while those policies may in turn determine which countries UK products can be sold to."
UK-EU trade will be subject to customs checks and controls to ascertain that products are of a satisfactory standard once the UK withdraws from the customs union.
The report cites one example, given to the committee by Professor Alan Swinbank, to illustrate the potential challenges ahead in terms of border and customer checks.
"One thinks of the port of Dover trying to cope with products coming in and coming out. If we have to start checking microbiological contamination of chicken carcasses coming from the Netherlands, for example, those tests can take several days and the product wastes in that period."
Equally, the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (ADHB) has also raised concerns over the possible delays and ports and other entry points for perishable goods like fresh fruit and vegetables as well as meat.
The UK agri-food sector accounted for 7.2% of the national Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2014, or £108 billion (US$139 billion) in total, within which agriculture accounted for £9.9 billion (US$12.7 billion). In 2014 the agricultural workforce consisted of 429,000 people, and the utilized agricultural area (UAA) amounted to 71% of land in the UK. The food manufacturing industry is also an inherent part of the UK agri-food sector, accounting for £26.9 billion (US$34.7 billion) of GVA in 2014 and employed 381,000 people.
By Gaynor Selby
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        /// <returns>
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                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(cert));
            }

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        public static string AsPemEncodedString(
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The purpose of this column is to talk about the weekly math puzzle night dinners run by myself and Professor Palsson, and to invite you to join us for this and other related activities. Here's a quick summary of problem solving activities here; for more information or to be added to the email lists, contact me at [email protected].
We have a weekly problem solving dinner at 5:30pm in Dennett Private Dining Room at Mission on Wednesdays. There's no prep work; feel free to drop in any time (and if you're not on the meal plan we'll provide a swipe). The way it works is we print out a math competition from somewhere in the world, and then brainstorm and attack the problems together.
We'll also meet for lunch on Wednesdays (in Mission at noon, room TBD) to do Project Euler problems.
There are several math competitions each year. Some time in October or November we'll defend the Green Chicken when Middlebury travels here. There's also the Virginia Tech math competition (we'll do this remotely Saturday October 25th), and the Putnam exam (which will probably be Sat Dec 6th).
We also frequently field teams for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
I'm also teaching a class on math puzzles and problem solving, Math 331: The little Questions. Feel free to check out the homepage for resources, as well as lectures (each class is recorded and uploaded to YouTube).
Many people love math puzzles or riddles. They're often fun, frequently illustrate a beautiful concept or perspective, and unlike real world research problems they typically have an elegant answer. Below is one of my favorites. It can be solved by brute force but only at great cost (and a high probability of forgetting a case); however, if you look at it the right way it's just one line (and this proper perspective illustrates a powerful technique which is of use in research mathematics).
Problem: Imagine you have 10 distinct cookies but 5 distinguishable, hungry graduate students (so they're not engineering students working away in a lab!). How many ways can you divide all the cookies among the people? In other words, we only care about how many cookies each person gets, not which ones.
I run a math riddles page (see http://mathriddles.williams.edu/ ), and this was the first problem I added; the problems and resources posted there for students and teachers are used in schools throughout the world, and if you're interested in helping with the site drop me a line at [email protected]. It turns out that this problem is equivalent to Waring's Problem with exponent 1; I've used this idea with SMALL students in research problems related to Fibonacci numbers (this is discussed in another post, To Bead or Not To Bead). Enjoy!


This is the mail system at host box.unitymail.co.uk.
I don't understand why their email server thinks I am trying to relay through their machine. Anyone have any observations on this?
Your box is box.unitymail.co.uk and you are trying to forward a message to usman@ali.uk.net, correct? What is the origin of the email that fails, or do ALL emails to that forward fail?
Are there any other users @ali.uk.net? Or just the one? The issue COULD be the way that their server is configured. But I'd like more info before I say for sure.
FYI - You cannot have an alias for a domain you do not host on your MIAB. This is probably the cause of the error message.
If I can explain further. I have MIAB set as the MX for rbrotary.org.uk, however there are no mailboxes, only aliases as forwarders.
The other end of the forwarder is whatever the user declares to me is their real address. Some use hotmail, gmail, outlook, talktalk etc. In this case the person has their own domain. I have no knowledge of how their mail is organised and I should not need it?
This happens ok for all other forwarders. Probably irrelevant but there is also a club@ forwarder which forwards to all the other Aliases in that domain. The problem first happened when I mailed the group and got this one bounceback. I then mailed direct and got the same result.
I did a little bit of digging … Ali is using M$ Outlook for his incoming email. So the rejection is compliments of Micro$oft.
There was a discussion of this issue about a week and a half ago. One user demonstrated a potential solution - though not a perfect solution. I have asked in that thread if his fix worked with Outlook end recipients.
ETA: Even if this solution fixes the problem it is an unsupported modification to MiaB. There IS an alternative solution IF Ali is willing to take the few minutes to set it up.
Mail forwarding: Do I need to concern myself with the SPF fail header from Google?


A Proustian view of Physical Geography?
Richard Bales, Introduction, The Cambridge Companion to Marcel Proust.
Getting to know Physical Geography is not the acquisition of a bundle of facts, it is familiarity with a world of insight and appreciation in which one gradually feels at home. Learning Physical Geography is a bit like getting to know Proust. Or perhaps that's just me. Richard Bales, in the chapter from which I took the quotation at the head of this post, goes on to say that getting to know Proust is "the growing realisation that humanity is subject to an enormous range of vicissitudes, but obedient also to recurrent laws. It is the recognition that life, drab though vast swathes of it may be, can be transfigured in rare moments of insight. It is above all the acknowledgement that what is humble and what is sublime cohabit in indissoluble symbiosis. For if there is just one lesson one retains from a reading of Proust it is that what seems trivial is often what is most significant and revelatory." I need to think about this in the context of Physical Geography. Of course, getting to know anything is about becoming familiar with its world, not just about compiling the bundle of its facts. This isn't just about Physical Geography. But it can be about Physical Geography, if Physical Geography is what you are getting to know. Subject to enormous variability but obedient to recurrent laws. The ordinary transfigured in moments of insight. The mundane and the extraordinary in indissoluble symbiosis. Yes, that's Physical Geography. But isn't it everything? And isn't that the point?


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A Changing Workforce Development Landscape: The Current State of Data Technology Systems and Preparing for What Lies Ahead explores how emerging data-driven information technologies can help align workforce program processes within the parameters of WIOA mandated reforms.
The report offers an assessment of the current state of workforce data systems and examines the processes currently in place to meet the data innovation challenges of state workforce agencies and local workforce boards as they work to meet policy reforms.
As state workforce agencies and local workforce boards strive to design increasingly more agile technology systems that can meet the future demands of job seekers and employers within the constraints of evolving policy requirements.
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The pleasure of sweet spicey Yuletide smells.
When all things bright and beautiful will sing!
(John Knight - September 2009) .
"Sarah!" Mother called. "Please get away from the window. Close the curtains and come on out here in the باورچی خانے, باورچی خانہ with me."
Sarah had her small, chubby nose up to the window in the living-room. She had her eyes peeled to the window for the past hour. It was snowing wildly and it was very windy. She was waiting for her dad to come ہوم from work. He was already an گھنٹہ late.
"Come on, Sarah," coaxed her mother. "Daddy will be ہوم soon."
"But, where is he?" five سال old Sarah pouted. "He should have been here سے طرف کی now."
"Sarah," کہا Mother. "Daddy is probably held up because of the weather. He'll be ہوم soon."
Mrs. Thompson frowned as she set a big bowl of homemade chicken سوپ in front of her daughter. She knew Sarah had a right to be worried about her father because she too, was worried. He only worked about fifteen منٹ away from home, in their little village. He worked in a lumber yard.
Auroras, also known as northern and southern (polar) lights یا aurorae (singular: aurora), are natural light displays in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, and usually observed at night. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras. This is a misnomer however, because they are commonly visible between 65 to 72 degrees north and south latitudes, which place them a ring just within the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Aurorae do occur deeper inside the polar regions, but these are infrequent and often invisible to the naked eye.
Just another دن in paradise . . .
I venture another step آگے and I'm swept into a beautiful world.
There's white as far as the eye can see.
I take a breath of fresh, crisp air and lean down to take some snow.
The snow is perfect: Ominous white made of thousands of compact snowflakes.
I lick the snow, my tongue brushing along each bump.
I feel a drop on my head.


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On the heels of his 20th anniversary, Eric Benet is a beautiful reminder that consistency and great music is all you need to win. The four-time Grammy nominee has returned to his first love with his latest self-titled album Eric Benet.
He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his growing family, Prince and why he feels like God paid him back with three daughters.
On his daughter's musical style:
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"Take some old Tears for Fears and old Gwen Stefani and mix it with a beautiful voice on top of it. She's so incredible. I love it. I'm so proud of her."
Watch the entire interview above.
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Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait, a Documentary by Patrick Donohew
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Another View from the Hills
Sisters are doin' it for themselves
By Steven Tweddell
She's only 11, and she has to stay home nearly every weekend, sometimes entire weeks, with only two of her sisters for company and guidance- one is three years older, the other, four years younger – while her father travels miles to Lexington to visit his ailing wife. And the three of them have to run the farm. Strip tobacco, work in the fields, all of it. Eleven years old. Then she contracts tuberculosis when she's 12 and has to be sent away to join her mother at the sanatorium.
This is just one of the hard luck stories from Patrick Donohew's new film, Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait.
Donohew started with the idea of making his grandfather's story a film, but as he conducted the long phone interviews with his aunts and mother, he discovered that the sisters' stories were the most compelling. They could tell their own histories much more easily, and in doing so, tell their father's story as well. Thus, Seven Sisters was born.
Even though Donohew may have been mistaken about the original direction of his film, he clearly knew that he wanted to make a film about Kentucky, especially eastern Kentucky. And since the media usually exploits the stereotypes of poverty and laziness in the Appalachian region, he was firm about making a different kind of film: "I wanted to dispel myths by showing that some of the strongest most caring people are from that area. I felt that the image needed to be corrected."
He felt Rory Kennedy's American Hollow was typical of films about the area that do more harm than good. "When Kennedy's film came out," he says, "I was really upset, but I also thought it was the perfect time for the film I was making."
Donohew's film centers around seven sisters growing up in the mountains near West Liberty, Kentucky, enduring the hardships of that life, and coming of age as they each leave home and build their own lives apart from the family, mostly in Lexington.
"I call it ordinary heroism," he says of their stories, "things folks have to go through to live their life – acts of sacrifice, courage, and generosity." He explains that it's different from other documentaries because it does deal with normal people and their lives instead of films that tend to focus on a cataclysmic event, or a really strange person who is painted as a human being.
Although the women in Seven Sisters may be viewed as ordinary, they tell extraordinary stories, and Donohew forms the narrative using only the words of sisters, each presenting their own take of the events that shaped their lives.
"I felt from the beginning that there should be no narrator. The sisters' voices were so strong that if another outside voice was added, I felt like it would distract the viewer." With only the sisters speaking, he had to worry about transitions, wondering if he could even pull it off. He conducted many pre-interviews so that he would be able to go into the real interviews with very specific questions.
The viewer gets to know each woman on a first-name basis -Scarlette, Cora, Ethel, Dorothy, Glenna, Charlotte, and Carole-and their comments sometimes seem directed straight to the viewer, as a conversation. The filmmaker is completely unobtrusive.
Perhaps it is Donohew's relationship with the women that put them at ease on camera. One of the sisters, Ethel, is his mother. But none of them seem to have any problem letting him in on some of their most painful moments.
He adds, "Part of being honest… sometimes you say things that are awkward and can hurt." And by putting it on camera, "this brings the viewer into challenges of how a family grows and gains strength."
Even after going through the countless hours of preparation and work to crystalize ideas for the interviews, Donohew is quick to shift any credit, saying, "The credit goes to the sisters. They were all so very forthcoming and open with me." And that translates to the film, creating a view of eastern Kentucky – and the state, in general – that is more heroic than what we're used to.
KET will air Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait on Wednesday August 16 at 8 PM.
PATRICK DONOHEW
Donohew lives in San Francisco, but he was born and raised in Lexington, graduating from Lafayette High School in 1984 and from Transylvania University in 1988. Though he has been gone for several years, he says, "my heart is in Kentucky, and the projects that I want to spend the most time with deal with issues in Kentucky."
His roots aren't all that endears him to the Commonwealth, though. He was a member of the Actors' Guild of Lexington during the 1990-1991 season when it was still a collective. "It changed my life in a way," he says. He was getting ready to go to Tulane Law School when he started getting involved with Actors' Guild, but he enjoyed theater so much that he "decided that [he] really wanted to be using that creative part of [his] brain." Shortly after, he moved to San Francisco and worked odd jobs for awhile. He then started the Kudzu Theatre Company, and in turn, filmmaking grew out of his experience with theater.
He's now working on scripts for future documentaries as well as feature film ideas, many of which will be set in Kentucky because as he says, "Kentucky will always be home to me."
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5 Spoken Word Highlights
Hidden Door Electric City get's it's name from…
The Electric City of Heck, by Ron Butlin, who is a former Edinburgh Makar (poet laureate). Internationally renowned, with his work having been translated in to dozens of languages, Ron Butlin is an established name in the poetry world. Performing on Monday expect humour, terse and serious subject matter and a collaboration with the Tinderbox Orchestra which will be a highlight of the festival!
"Hidden Door is a hidden gem with Edinburgh, and I'm really delighted to be taking part. It is one of the most vibrant festivals I know. A truly rich presentation of all the arts, pulsing with life and energy."
From established names to experimental delivery…
Tuesday 31st May 2016
From poet laureate to up and coming artist, Dominic Sacarnie explores the relationship between the voice and effects, distorting traditional spoken word and poetry and creating an abstract beauty open to interpretation and sound scapes that both enhance and detract from the delivery.
"I like thinking about new ways of delivering poems. What effect technology could have on the kinds of poems you make – when for example you can interrupt a voice – loop a voice – or have many voices speaking at once."
Expect instruments of all types…
Electric auto-harp, grand and toy piano, harmonium and dulcitone are all tools in which Kirsten Norrie, aka MacGillivray, uses to deliver performances. With a penchant to err on the avant garde, her impressive CV includes collaborations with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, The Fall and writer Alan Moore. Flirting with haunting melody and melancholly, MacGillivray should not be missed.
"I tend to ignore the small collection of demons on the shoulder, ranging from elderly nerds to indifferent harbingers of cool that try to set me off course. If you think doubt is a sacred art then you can use that as counterpoise but I usually try and banish it as ego and keep my eye on the road, otherwise it's a series of kaleidoscopes."
Spoken word at Hidden Door will feature animation…
Monday 30th May 2016
The Dead Stations is the collaboration between Charlotte Hathaway and Mike Vass. Featuring music, sound design, recorded voices and animations, The Dead Stations is a fully fledged audio drama where the soundtrack almost outdoes the dialogue. A full sensory experience different to all the live acts, you can see Charlotte and Mike's work in the cinema of Hidden Door.
"For 'The Dead Stations' we also wanted to work with animators, which brought its own challenges. The story is intended first and foremost to be listened to, and the plot relies on not actually seeing the story played out in front of you. The animators were briefed with creating abstract animations which wouldn't give the story away. The project grew arms and legs when we started working with them! We'd never envisaged live performances when we first started making the piece."
Jenny Lindsay presents…
Wednesday 1st June 2016
One half of the poetry duo Rally and Broad, who are sadly going their separate ways to concentrate on individual endeavours, Jenny Lindsay is a very important poet at this year's Hidden Door. Championing some excellent Glasgow talent, including Iona Lee, the current Scottish Slam Champion, Louie and the Lochbacks (featuring Hector Bizerk), McGuire, Marc Rooney and Be Charlotte, Jenny's line up promises to be an outstanding end to spoke word at this years festival.
"To me, saying you don't like spoken word is like saying you don't like 'music.' It's a massive, broad church of different sytles. Best thing to do is come see for yerself!"
Alastair Chivers
From 27 May – 4 June 2016 Hidden Door will return to the amazing disused street lighting depot behind Kings Stables Road in Edinburgh. Click here for ticket info