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The DeSantis affair: The disgraceful politization of Jewish institutions
Posted on May 8, 2022 by Adina Kutnicki
[Editorial Comments By Adina Kutnicki ]
OVER the years, countless (Christian Zionists, for the most part, as well as others from various backgrounds, albeit, to a lesser degree) have come away befuddled — regarding the counter-intuitive, knee-jerk responses of Jewish communal organizations, in their support of radical leftist causes.
MOST tellingly, these well-meaning folks are left scratching their heads, as per the "religious" belief in all matters Democrat Party based, as if divined from Moses on Mount Sinai — in juxtaposition to their overt hostility towards Israel, and, with it, laced with anti-semitic undertones. A hidden hand. Yes, this is not yesteryear's liberal party platform. Affiliation.
INEXORABLY, these communal orgs wouldn't exist (flourish, let alone), that is, sans mega Jewish donors, in concert, with Dem-backed ("dark money") mischief makers. Which begs the most glaring dichotomy and paradox of all: Why would a preponderance of, seemingly educated, Jews turn against their own people, be it covertly or overtly, knowing full well that appeasement never thwarts an unquenchable enemy?
WHILE more than one treatise can be written about this highly perplexing and dangerous Jewish phenomenon, two foretastes serve as back-ups to today's centerpiece.
Appeasement will not work
When Does Delusional Thinking Become A Pathological Illness?
BUT lest anyone believes that this affliction is the sole purview of this writer's Jewish brethren, well, think again.
Professor Paul Eidelberg Shares A Delight …'Americans Following Obama'
NEVER mind. AS is known, it starts with the Jews but it doesn't end with the Jews.
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS | By Jonathen S. Tobin | May 8, 2022
By refusing to allow a conference to be held in its building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution.
(JNS) At a time when partisan divisions are at an all-time high, there aren't many places that are politics-free zones anymore. Many, if not most, of our cultural institutions and media outlets have lined up on one side or the other. That is just as true, if not truer, of the American Jewish world since the vast majority of non-Orthodox Jews identify as politically liberal with a large plurality being among the most loyal and determinedly partisan supporters of the Democratic Party.
One has come to expect knee-jerk partisanship from many Jewish religious institutions, the major denominations, national organizations and even the formerly nonpartisan Anti-Defamation League—the one group specifically tasked with defending Jews against anti-Semitism. But it's likely that few people thought this would also be true of one of the country's leading Holocaust museums. Yet the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, has just made clear that it, too, is done with any pretense of nonpartisanship or openness to those who might dissent from left-wing dictates.
By refusing to host a conference where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was one of the invited speakers, the museum hasn't just indicated that it can no longer be considered a nonpartisan institution. Its decision also illustrates the way many on the Jewish left have come to view the Holocaust as only meaningful as a metaphor to be employed in backing a political agenda designed to label anyone they don't like as a bigot.
The incident involves the Jewish Leadership Conference being hosted by the Tikvah Fund. Tikvah is a well-known nonprofit philanthropic organization focused on promoting Jewish programs in both Israel and the United States, as well as elsewhere. The Museum of Jewish Heritage had agreed to host its June 12 conference, as it has welcomed a wide variety of other events with a broad array of speakers. But as Tikvah Fund chairman Elliott Abrams and CEO Eric Cohen said in a Wall Street Journal article this week, they were told by museum staff that one of their scheduled speakers, Gov. DeSantis, "didn't align with the museum's values and its message of inclusivity." They were given an ultimatum. Either ditch him or the conference would not longer be welcome at the museum.
Not unsurprisingly, Tikvah chose not to insult the Florida governor and quickly found another venue for its event. But the museum's effort to silence DeSantis is noteworthy because it shows that the virus of cancel culture has spread from academia—where refusals of colleges and universities to allow speakers deemed controversial for one reason or another to be heard—to a leading Jewish institution.
In and of itself, that is deeply troubling since Jewish tradition has always been rooted in notions of open debate and a willingness to hear different points of view. Many leading secular institutions of higher learning have ditched the principle of free speech in favor of ideas in which some opinions—almost always those identified as conservative or at least opposed to the latest woke leftist trends—must be proscribed lest they cause those who disagree to feel "unsafe" or "triggered." The museum seems to be reading from the same script.
That's a disgrace wherever it occurs, and it's symptomatic of the growing intolerance for open discourse that characterizes 21st-century American politics. But for this sort of behavior to find a foothold in a leading Jewish institution—much less one dedicated as a "living memorial to the Holocaust"—is a sign of the abandonment of its Jewish responsibilities in favor of a partisan cause.
The meaning behind the message given to Tikvah's leaders by museum staff was crystal-clear.
DeSantis has been embroiled in a controversy over a parental rights bill he recently signed into law. It upholds the right of parents to be involved in public-school decisions regarding their children's well-being and to limit discussions of gender and sexuality issues in classrooms from kindergarten to third grade. His leftist opponents in their bully media and pop culture pulpits mislabeled it as a "Don't Say Gay" bill. Reasonable people may disagree about this law. However, the effort to characterize DeSantis as opposed to the Jewish values embodied by the museum's mission or as an opponent of inclusion is nothing more than a partisan talking point aimed at smearing someone who is considered one of the leading figures in the Republican Party and a likely future presidential candidate.
DeSantis is one of the most ardent supporters of Israel within an already pro-Israel GOP. He was the founding chair of the "Israel Victory Caucus" in Congress organized by the Middle East Forum think tank. He is also close to conservative-leaning Jews. His conference topic will be the flowering of the growing Jewish community in Florida and the policies he thinks have helped that happen.
You can agree or disagree with everything the governor does or stands for. But the notion that a Holocaust museum should be off-limits for any leading voice in mainstream American politics, let alone a figure that has been as closely aligned with the Jewish community on many important issues as DeSantis, isn't so much ill-advised as it is absurd.
The museum's decision only makes sense if one is prepared to view Jewish institutions as the moral equivalent of a cable news outlet like MSNBC, where only liberal or leftist voices are heard and conservatives are treated as not so much wrong as evil. That reflects the current atmosphere inside the Democratic Party, where even a supposedly moderate figure like President Joe Biden referred this week to supporters of former President Donald Trump by the term "MAGA world" and said they were "the most extreme political organization in American history." In other words, Republicans like the Florida governor are not fellow citizens, neighbors or relatives, but extremist insurrectionists to be shunned if not targeted as bigots and potential terrorists.
Perhaps that's not surprising to hear from anyone involved in today's no-holds-barred political combat in which DeSantis is himself a notable pugilist.
But for a Holocaust museum to say, in effect, that anyone like him is to be treated as unfit to set foot in their building is both outrageous and an indication that such an institution is, like an MSNBC studio segment, a place where only a certain sort of person may be heard.
Subsequently, the museum claimed that it opposed DeSantis because it didn't host political events. But as Abrams and Cohen pointed out, the same museum welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—the leading voice of the leftist "Squad" that is deeply hostile to Israel—in 2018. Equally controversial politicians like former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who spearheaded the Biden administration's re-entry into the anti-Semitic U.N. Human Rights Council, have also appeared there.
The museum's hypocrisy in canceling DeSantis while welcoming controversial liberal or left-wing Democrats demonstrates its shameless embrace of partisanship. But it also shows that for those involved in this institution, remembering the Holocaust isn't a sacred Jewish duty but just another way of manipulating history to back up the political agendas of its staff and funders.
This ought to be a wake-up call for those of this museum's backers who don't want an important Jewish institution exploited by woke ideologues. This should also be true for anyone else who wishes to hold the line against the toxic influence of cancel culture elsewhere in the Jewish world.
Jewish venues should remain places where open discourse is possible, and friends of Israel and the Jews are welcomed, even if some disagree with them. The alternative is to stand by and watch as Jewish interests are sacrificed on the altar of leftist dogma.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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Modernising an old-fashioned media
Gender imbalances permeate the Romanian media landscape. Gender stereotypes, influenced by advertising, are ever-present. Although Romanian civil society is sensitive to women's issues, this is not reflected in the way media organisations appoint staff nor in their editorial policies. Few women rise to top jobs in the media, and media organisations pay little attention to gender. In fact women play a subordinate role in public life generally, and there is no legislative framework that might change this. Even women journalists show little awareness of the gender patterns that determine their working conditions.
The Ariadna association responded to this situation by developing a series of training courses for women in the media. They covered subjects such as Gender and media in Romania and Eliminating gender stereotypes in the media and Romanian society. Each module included a thematic presentation, workshops, case studies and best practices, and rounded off with evaluation and certification. These were delivered in live training sessions and also in the form of electronic course books. The courses reached 80-100 professionals from print, radio, television and online media.
Evaluation shows that there has been a significant effect on the way the media portray women and address women's issues. The trainees have been empowered to build coalitions and to start fighting for improved gender equality, and the tone of public debate has changed so that now there is pressure for legal and institutional changes to the law and the creation of gender-related bodies and budgets in the Romanian government.
Widespread gender imbalances
Gender imbalances are widespread in the Romanian media system: as far as access to expression through the media is concerned, gender issues are rarely covered and the representation of women in the media does not reflect the real social conditions and everyday life of women.
Advertising too in Romania abounds in negative stereotypes of women which are sometimes assimilated in other media content. Despite Romanian civil society being sensitive to gender equality issues, within news organisations awareness is low: women journalists are generally unaware of the specific gendered patterns regulating their career and access to the media. The level of criticism, even with regard to sexism in advertising and media content in general, is low.
Women are also under-represented in decision-making bodies within media organisations: the reasons for this lie in the inadequate national legal framework for the media regarding gender equality and in the total absence of institutional points of reference: media organisations in Romania do not have departments to deal with gender and media issues; neither do they have professional media associations.
On the other side of the coin, civil society associations campaigning on women and media issues exist, but they find it difficult to access the financial resources to carry on their work. More generally, the gender imbalance in decision-making in the media reflects that in Romanian society and politics: there is a widespread feeling of discouragement on the part of women, due to the small number of women occupying prestigious roles in the public sphere.
Media course November 2013, Bucharest
In 2011, the Ariadna association ran a series of training courses for media professionals, delivered through teaching modules and electronic course handbooks. Examples of courses provided are Gender and media in Romania, which was supported by the Grundtvig Programme Voix des Femmes en Europe (Women's Voices in Europe) (FEM21), and Eliminating gender stereotypes in the media and Romanian society, which received funding from the EU-funded Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development (POSDRU). The courses were modular and addressed the issue of women's access to expression and decision-making. For instance Gender and media in Romania included modules regarding women's careers and leadership, and Eliminating gender stereotypes in the media and the Romanian society included modules referring to key players, content, standards, policies and legislation.
Each module included a thematic presentation, workshops, case studies, and best practices, and rounded off with evaluation and certification. Course materials, including what was discussed in training sessions and toolkits, were made into course handbooks which were available to course participants on the website www.evaf.ro.
There were 80-100 trainees for all courses who were media professionals from print, radio, television and online media. In addition to access to course modules and materials, trainees benefitted from networking and working together.
The project's evaluation showed that impact might have been improved by organising information campaigns to advertise the results of the training, and by obtaining support from authorities competent for media and communication and governmental gender equality bodies.
Various amounts of finance were made available for the training by Ariadna and other NGOs, and from the FEM21 (Grundtvig) and POSDRU programmes.
Changing the media climate
The project's global objective was to promote gender equality in the media and in Romanian society. More specifically, it aimed to increase trainees' awareness and know-how regarding gender issues, to provide them with tools to use, and to certify them on gender issues. Beyond that, it encouraged trainees to form coalitions and take action for gender equality.
Thereby, it aimed to increase women's access to media products, give them a louder voice, raise the prestige the media accord them, and increase the media's attention to women's social, economic and cultural issues. It also aimed to increase the number of women in top-level positions in media organisations and in media policy-making and production.
The project evaluation finds that the gender equality objective initially set (compensating for the lack of specific educational programmes to enhance media professionals' ability to address gender issues) has been achieved. The beneficiaries were able to take advantage of the changes that were brought about, which can be summarised as follows:
media professionals have better awareness, expertise, access to best practices, certification, networking and action;
in media organisations, employees are better prepared on gender and media issues, and have created new networks;
reporting of gender issues is more balanced, and there is less gender stereotyping in media contents.
The practice has had a positive impact on the wider environment and has produced a significant increase in gender equality beyond its immediate reach. This impact concerns precisely those factors mostly responsible for gender imbalances in media organisations and contents in Romania: women media professionals who have attended the courses have become more aware of their gendered position within the media system and better networked. This, in turn, has produced many positive outcomes, some of which have affected legislation and institutions: there has been widespread pressure in Romanian public debate to change the law in order to ensure women's access to decision-making positions in the media and in politics, and to introduce gender-related bodies and budgets in the Romanian government.
Increased prestige
In the short term, it has increased women's access to prestigious roles in media production and content, and given women more opportunities to be heard. It has contested women's segregation into 'female' issues, and increased the attention that the media pay to women's social, economic and cultural issues. Positive preliminary results from internal monitoring also indicated women's increased access to leadership in media organisations.
Looking at longer-term results, the project secured funding from various EU bodies, and built coalitions among various women's NGOs, media organisations, and even national governmental bodies to configure content and secure trainees. Former trainees have united to take action for equal opportunities in media professions and women's advancement in social and political life. They have started campaigns to attract young professionals into activities dedicated to promoting equality and started to foster new alliances among women's and media associations.
Its work was relevant since the training, as well as Ariadna's other activities, are grounded in an ongoing assessment of needs. As to efficiency, the project results to have been achieved at reasonable cost in terms of financial and human resources: a small number of experts affiliated with Ariadna were able to secure funding, produce materials, and run training for a significant number of media professionals.
The managing organisation, the Ariadna association, has the potential to produce all the resources (in terms of both funding and institutional arrangements) needed to continue the project's work. It is affiliated with COM, Conventia Organizatiilor de Media din Romania (the Convention of Media Organisations in Romania) and ROWL, the Romanian Women's Lobby (Bucharest), which is part of EWL, the European Women's Lobby (Brussels). Also, the benefits produced by the training organised by Ariadna are likely to continue to flow after external funding has ended: the trainees are potentially able to function as propagators of the training contents and to transfer the skills and awareness they have acquired to their colleagues and media organisations.
A replicable model
The project succeeded because it carefully assessed the gender equality needs shared by media organisations and professionals, and designed the content of courses and materials to specifically address gender and media issues. The courses and modules offered addressed real problems and were grounded in the knowledge of the professional routines, social practices and relationships that are characteristic of media organisations. Trainers had specific competence in the field and the training courses benefitted from the expertise developed by networks of women media professionals, gender experts, associations of women and advocacy groups. The training relied on a well-developed strategy that included evaluation and certification. It succeeded in promoting coalitions and networks among media professionals, thus compensating for the absence of sector-based associations in Romania.
The main obstacles it faced were uncertainty in securing continuation funding and the lack of political will to adequately support the training on the part of authorities competent for media and communication and governmental gender equality bodies.
The training has not yet been replicated. Nevertheless, with the exception of the political and institutional framework, all the other elements that contributed to the effectiveness of this practice are not specific to the cultural or legislative environment of Romania nor to the institutional arrangements of the media in Romania. For these reasons, the training can easily be replicated in other organisational and geographic contexts.
The experience shows how important it is to address the real problems media professionals face in their daily work in order for media reporting practices to better reflect gender issues. A new generation of media professionals is needed who know gender policies and are committed to applying them. To achieve this, the various regional, national and international organisations committed to fostering gender equality need to work together.
Băluta Oana (editor), Gen si putere, Partea leului in politica romaneasca (Gender and power, the lion's share in Romanian politics). Collection: Studii de gen. Publisher: Polirom. Iaşi, 2006
Barometrul de gen România (The Romanian gender barometer). Publisher: Foundation for an Open Society and the Gallup Organization. Bucharest, 2000
Contacts/Further Information
Georgeta Adam, PhD, President
Ariadna Asociatia Femeilor Journaliste din Romania (Romanian Women Journalists' Association)
georgeta.adam4@gmail.com
Ariadna website
Fem21
L'étude novatrice « Voix et voies de femmes en Europe'21 : culture, traditions, diversité, amitié »2011-2013
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Photo from Ariadna Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6u9h6gtb4i5kixo/AAD0Ivs1s-4heZ2kb-6r77F_a?n=4..., supplied 16 Oct
More good practices
EIGE's collection of good practices
EIGE's approach to good practices
Modernising an old-fashioned media - Romania
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Facebook is testing a feature that will let you have up to 5 profiles for a single account
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One of the long-standing stances of Facebook is that users should not have multiple accounts on its platform. This means that users have no choice but to create separate pages for their hobbies and interests if they do not wish to clutter their profile. Now, Facebook-parent Meta is bringing a solution to this problem – its flagship platform will now let users have up to five separate profiles tied to a single account.
For now, the feature is being tested with a select group of users (the exact number is unknown). If you are lucky enough to be a part of it, then you will be able to switch between the profiles seamlessly with just two taps. According to a Facebook spokesperson, this will let users "tailor their experience based on interests and relationships."
What does this mean for the everyday Facebook user? Should this feature roll out successfully, they will be able to create and dedicate separate profiles with specific and varied purposes, and each profile will have its own feed.
One profile can be used for connecting with their friends, while another can be used strictly for engaging with their bosses and co-workers. Each of the other profiles can then be dedicated to specific hobbies of the user – one for traveling, another for cooking, and the like. So you do not have to worry about mixing your cooking videos with the pictures you took on a trip abroad, for instance.
While the main account must have the real name of the user, the same need not be the case for the additional profiles. This is a big step for Facebook, which is known to be a real stickler for people using their real names while engaging on the platform.
Users can choose any profile name and username for the profiles, provided they are unique and do not use any numbers or special characters. They will, however, continue to be subject to Facebook's policies, which means that you cannot deceive or impersonate others. Doing so will force Facebook to take drastic steps, such as giving you the boot from its platform and removing both the main account and the profile(s).
This move by the company seems to be a neat way to increase engagement and encourage more posting and sharing on its platform. Not only will this improve the Facebook experience for users, but it may also help Facebook prevent a decline in its user numbers and prevent apps like TikTok from getting ahead in the race.


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Sometimes a misalignment may consist of just a poorly imaged slide, where there will be no discernible branches.
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====Misalignment Merger Tutorial====
One of EyeWire's gamemasters, sorek.m, created a video on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktuLSIIVl9Q&list=UUFWepnO6PHChOTIXsNePEYQ| how to trace around misalignment mergers.]
===Misleading Borders===
Usually EyeWire play goes smoothly, but sometimes players come up against tricky cells that may be cause confusion.
1 Mergers
1.1 Mergers That Exit The Cube
1.2 Seed Mergers
2 Misalignments
2.1 Misalignment Merger Tutorial
3 Misleading Borders
4 Tracing through black spills
Mergers are the most common problem in EyeWire. These are segments that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fused two segments together that don't belong. There is no way for the player to separate these segments, so they must learn to work around them. For small mergers that do not exit the cube a player may ignore them and continue their trace as normal. For larger mergers and/or mergers the exit the cube, the player may leave out the segment with the merger and continue their trace as normal.
Mergers That Exit The Cube
In special cases, the segment with the merger may also exit the cube. In these cases the player should add some "dust" that exits the cube in the same spot as the branch with the merger so that the branch will continue to grow.
The green segment has a merger in it. "Dust" was added to the good part of the branch to allow the branch to grow, while the green segment was removed.
Seed Mergers
Sometimes the merger occurs in the seed. When this happens players should not trace the part of the seed thats a merger. If it is hard to tell which part of the seed is good, players should ask a Scout, Scythe, or Admin for help. If the AI merger exits the cube, a Scout, Scythe, or Admin should be notified as soon as possible.
The first image shows the AI merger as a part of the seed. If it is unclear which part is the merger, the second image highlights it in green. The third image shows the cube after an admin has removed the merger.
Misalignments
Sometimes the 2D image slides may contain misalignments. This may cause a "jump" between the misaligned segments. In these cases the player should do their best to look for shape and direction consistency to grow out his or her branch. Identifying reference points in slides and noting how they move can help the player to find the correct continuation of the branch.
An example of some reference points a player used to overcome a misalignment.
Poorly Imaged Slide
Misalignment Merger Tutorial
One of EyeWire's gamemasters, sorek.m, created a video on how to trace around misalignment mergers.
Misleading Borders
It is important that players utilize multiple visual cues to check their work before they submit. Sometimes pieces look like they fit in the 2D, but clearly do not work in the 3D model. If unclear borders in the 2D plane are causing a player confusion, he or she may also use the command ALT+drag to drag the 2D to a different view.
Segment appears valid in 2D, but in 3D it is clear it doesn't fit
Tracing through black spills
For various reasons some neurons have been damaged allowing the stain to enter the neurons causing a black spill-like effect in the 2D. It is not always possible to trace through them as sometimes the damage is so extensive that it requires the most expert and experienced of scythes and/or admins to trace through them but some other times it is easier and doable by players.
To trace through such black spills one must scroll through the 2D a number of times adding and removing segments leaving a gap if needed until the neuron is extended to the cube's wall (if that is possible). Sometimes like tracing through mergers leaving a gap is required because adding a segment in the black spill might also add a portion of another neuron which is not desired. It may not look pretty in the end but it may be correct.
A difficult trace through a black spill. Here as can be seen the damage to the neuron/dendrite is extensive for a portion of it.
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Intendencia es el nombre con el cual se conocía a un tipo de subdivisión territorial de Colombia, hoy extinto, que junto con las comisarías conformaban los llamados territorios nacionales del país.

Aunque territorialmente tenían un estatus similar al de los departamentos, su régimen administrativo era muy distinto, siendo relegado este a las disposiciones del gobierno central que estaba en manos del Departamento Administrativo de Intendencias y Comisarías. Al mando de estas entidades se encontraba un intendente y un Concejo Intendencial.

Lista de intendencias
Hasta 1991 las siguientes eran intendencias de Colombia, que tras esa fecha pasaron a denominarse departamentos:

La siguiente es una lista de intendencias que existieron previamente a 1991, pero por diversas razones fueron extintas antes de dicho año:

Véase también
 Organización territorial de Colombia
 Departamentos de Colombia
 Comisarías de Colombia
 Historia territorial de Colombia
 Anexo:Cronología de la organización territorial de Colombia

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Tracing its beginnings to 1840, the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District is the oldest district in St. Louis County. Just over two square miles in size and serving portions of the Cities of Maplewood and Richmond Heights, MRH is one of the smallest districts in the area. Take a look at many of the other ways that set MRH apart:
Maplewood Richmond Heights School District is fully accredited by the State of Missouri, having earned the "Annual Distinction in Performance Award" numerous times.
Annual Performance Report (APR Score) from MO Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) - the APR system was discontinued by DESE for 2019.
2018: 98.4%
Overview (as of March 1, 2021)
Early Childhood Center (K-2)
High School (grades 9-12)
Enrollment 1,419
(not including pre-K) 344 445 237 393
Percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunch 34.88% 27.68% 34.11% 40.52% 38.64%
Student/classroom teacher ratio 13:1 11:1 16:1 14:1 12:1
Percentage of teaching staff with a master's degree or higher 85.0% 80.1% 73.6% 71.7% 84.3%
Average years of teaching experience for teaching staff 11.3 11.8 8.9 10.9 14.1
Percentage of teaching staff designated "highly qualified" by the US Dept of Education 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Attendance rate 93.1% 93.7%% 97.5% 91.0% 85.9%
Four-year graduation rate 91.36% 91.36%
MRH has 17.69% of its teaching faculty certified under this category, which greatly exceeds the national average, which is fewer than 10%.
MRH District Map
St. Louis County School District Map
State test scores and other data are available through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Total students served districtwide: 149 (43 high schools; 21 middle schools; 70 elementary schools; 15 early childhood centers)
Long-Range Facilities Study Committee Report
In the spring of 2012 the MRH Long-Range Facilities Study Committee, comprising parents, community members, administrators, teachers, and students, met to create a
facilities plan for the District. The plan they developed goes through 2021.


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The 2006 Position Paper on Specialist Neonatal Services in Northern Ireland commissioned by the Department of Health stated:
'The care which is provided in a specialist neonatal unit can have life-long effects. Continuing research is required to monitor outcomes from the neonatal units and to increase the evidence-base for what constitutes good neonatal care.'(1)
In the United Kingdom, approximately one in nine babies is born premature or sick which equates to 80,000 babies per year with one baby being admitted to specialist care every six minutes (BLISS)(2). Each year, approximately 2,000 (7%) newborn babies in Northern Ireland will need extra care and will be admitted to one of the seven neonatal units. More than half of these babies will need intensive or high dependency care.
Therefore, although neonatal care provision is relatively low volume it represents a substantial cost within the health service and can be associated with significant mortality and long-term morbidity particularly for very immature babies. (3) NICORE is a joint initiative between the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and is funded by the Department of Health, Social Service and Public Safety (DHSSPS).
NICORE aims to work towards improved outcomes for newborn infants admitted to neonatal care and their families in Northern Ireland under the guidance of the newly established Neonatal Network for Northern Ireland (NNNI).
Neonatal Teams: Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Regional Neonatal Unit: Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast
The primary function of NICORE is to provide high quality data which are accurate, timely, comprehensive, accessible and relevant in order to support service provision, research, clinical governance, quality improvement, surveillance and to facilitate local, national and international benchmarking.
The anonymous core dataset provides a detailed account of the neonatal care provided for all babies in Northern Ireland: admission details, pregnancy and delivery, parent details, early outcomes within 28 days, discharge details, interventions, treatments, diagnoses, activity and performance against evidence based quality standards.
The neonatal population in Northern Ireland has little cross boundary flow and is therefore ideal for conducting research within a geographically defined region. The Child Health System Bureau Service and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research agency (NISRA) provide denominator data and have good working relationships with NICORE.
https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/
http://www.bliss.org.uk/
Mistry, H., Dowie, R., Franklin, R.C.G. and Jani, B.R. (2009) 'Cost of neonatal care for low-birthweight babies in English hospitals', Acta Paediatrica, 98, pp. 1123-1129.
DHSSPS Child Health System Bureau Service Database, Northern Ireland.
http://www.nisra.gov.uk/
External Benchmarking Links:
National Neonatal Audit Program: http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/improving-child-health/quality-improvement-and-clinical-audit/national-neonatal-audit-programme-nn-3
Vermont Oxford Network: http://www.vtoxford.org/
External Premature Baby Charities Links:
TinyLife: http://www.tinylife.org.uk/
Bliss: http://www.bliss.org.uk/
Sands: http://www.sandsni.org/
Neonatal Network Northern Ireland: No web-link at present
Public Health Agency: http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/
Cochrane Neonatal Review Group: http://neonatal.cochrane.org/
NIMACH: http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/directorate-public-health/service-development-and-screening/nimach
Health and Social Care Trusts: http://www.hscni.net/
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/
Resources Available For Download:
NICORE Parent Information Leaflet
Neonatal Care in Northern Ireland 2015
13th Annual Report
Evidence Based Medicine - Heat Loss At Birth
Evidence Based Medicine - Screening For Retinopathy Of Prematurity (ROP)
Neonatal Network Northern Ireland, Regional Discharge Questionnaire: One Year On
Parental Perceptions of Neonatal Care Questionnaire 2016/17
NNNI Parents' Experiences of Neonatal Care: A 3-year Journey
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Corliss Lamont was Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1932 to 1954, and Chairman of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC) for thirty years thereafter.
Born in March 1902 in Englewood, New Jersey, Lamont attended Harvard University where, as student Vice Chairman of the Harvard Union, he proposed that Socialist Party President Eugene V. Debs, communist labor organizer William Z. Foster, and radical economist Scott Nearing be invited to speak to the student body. After graduating from Harvard, Lamont went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1932. He then found work as a professor at Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia.
"Lenin's face is strong, calm, and refined in the fundamental sense. His hand rests on a red pillow and his hands, clasped on his chest in a tranquil way, appear delicate and intellectual. The short yet forceful beard is reddish. We have to keep moving, though we want to stop and look longer and more carefully…. [I]t is not enough."
In general, the Lamonts returned home to America to report the "great deal of happiness," the "new human nature" they had discovered in communist Russia. "[T]he new world of the twentieth century is the Soviet Union," they glowed to their progressive comrades. "And no one who is seriously interested in the progress of the human spirit can afford to miss it." Even as the Lamonts wrote those words, Stalin was ramping up his forced famine, his Great Purge, and launching his annihilation of tens of millions of people.
In 1936 Lamont co-founded and subsidized the magazine Marxist Quarterly. During the Soviet Great Purge of 1937-38, he defended the Moscow Trials, a series of show trials where Joseph Stalin's political opponents were falsely convicted of such trumped-up charges as conspiring with Western powers to assassinate Stalin, dissolve the Soviet Union, and restore capitalism. Years later, Lamont would acknowledge his error in having endorsed these trials.
During his tenure as ACLU Director, Lamont became a key figure in the Communist organization Friends of the Soviet Union (FSU). In 1943 FSU was restructured under the name National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, with Lamont as its Board Chairman and chief incorporator. Because of his connections to such organizations, Lamont was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1946; he refused to produce requested documents and was eventually charged with contempt of Congress.
With the deaths of his father (a business partner of J. P. Morgan in what was then America's leading banking firm) in 1948 and his mother four years later, Lamont became heir to a vast fortune. Disillusioned by the ACLU's insistence that its officers take an oath that they were not Communists, Lamont left the ACLU Board and, in 1951, co-founded NECLC, becoming the fledgling group's first Chairman. His fellow NECLC founders included I.F. Stone, Paul Lehmann, James Imbrie, Henry Pratt Fairchild, E. Franklin Frazier, and H.H. Wilson.
In his 1952 book The Myth of Soviet Aggression, Lamont wrote that "both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, in order to push their enormous armaments programs through Congress and to justify the continuation of the Cold War, have felt compelled to resort to the device of keeping the American people in a state of alarm over some alleged menace of Soviet or Communist origin."
Lamont made numerous trips to the Soviet Union during the Cold War but, despite his passionate allegiance to Marxism, never formally joined the Communist Party USA. In 1953 he published Why I Am Not a Communist.
Lamont authored a total of 16 books, including: The Philosophy of Humanism; Humanism Is the Illusion of Immortality; A Lifetime of Dissent ; Voice in the Wilderness: Collected Essays of Fifty Years ; The Peoples of the Soviet Union ; and You Might Like Socialism: A Way of Life for Modern Man. He also penned hundreds of pamphlets and thousands of letters to newspapers on significant social issues. In addition, he published intimate portraits of such luminaries as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Katherine Hepburn.
Lamont made two unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Senate -- on the ticket of the American Labor Party in 1952 and the Independent Socialist Party in 1958.
In the early 1960s Lamont sued the U.S. Postmaster General (PG) for complying with a 1963 Congressional mandate directing the PG to issue postcards to the intended American recipients of communist literature originating in foreign countries -- postcards inquiring as to why the literature had been sent to them. When Lamont received such a postcard concerning his receipt of a copy of the Peking Review, he filed a lawsuit which he lost in federal court but won on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A decade later, when Lamont learned that the FBI had compiled a large file on him, he sued the Justice Department.
In 1976 he sued the CIA for damages in connection with its opening of 155 of his personal letters. Two years later a federal district court in Brooklyn, New York ruled in Lamont's favor and ordered the government to pay him $2,000 and send him a "suitable letter of regret."
In 1982 Lamont, who described himself as "a teacher of philosophy and a worker for world peace," donated $1 million to establish a Chair in Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School.
In February 1988 Lamont sued the U.S. government over its provision of federal tax aid to sectarian schools overseas.
In 1990 and 1991, he protested U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf War.
In 1993 Lamont traveled to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro. He discussed with the Communist dictator the feasibility of suing the U.S. government for its alleged efforts, through the CIA, to assassinate Castro. Lamont's devotion to Communist Cuba spanned decades. As early as 1961 he wrote a 39-page pamphlet titled The Crime Against Cuba.
Among Lamont's more notable friends and ideological kindred spirits was the entertainer Pete Seeger.
Lamont died of heart failure in 1995 at his home in Ossining, New York.


I did a lot more character building, and then started using the 'Extreme Harry Potter Word Crawl' which I found really helpful in keeping my motivation up. I made it to 7k and then went for a walk with my sister, and stopped off at the shops to get some chocolate for motivational purposes. I probably could have written more once I got home but I needed the break.
I had some friends over today so I didn't get quite as much writing done, but I am still on track. I have found that if I sit down and write I can actually pump out a lot of words, it is just me being unsure as to what goes next that slows the whole process down.
So I made it to 10k by doing the five headed hydra challenge which was really amazing at getting large amounts of words down. I then proceeded to crack open a bag of lollies to celebrate.
I had to work today, but I managed to write a bit of a list of what was going to happen next while there which was really helpful for when I got home. I think I might even aim for 55k this month just to make it a bit more challenging.
I wrote this 1.5k in roughly an hour which shows how nanowrimo is helping me to improve my writing speed. I used to get only 1k in an hour. I am reaching the struggle where I don't know where my story is going, so hopefully I will find some direction soon.
I stayed up quite late watching movies but managed to write quite a bit. I probably would have gotten more done but I went out for dinner with my cousins. It was nice to have some interaction with other people and considering I am writing a book with group dynamics I guess it could be called research.
I didn't manage to get much writing done today because from 12 until 5 I was at a family thing, and even after that I was pretty tired. I have just introduced new characters and I am struggling to let them all speak, but I think it should work out.
How is your camp nanowrimo going?


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Suzy Prim (11 October 1896 – 7 July 1991) was a French actress.

She was born Suzanne Mariette Arduini in Paris and died in 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She began her screen career as a child actress during the silent era.

Selected filmography

 Carmen (1914)
 Madame Coralie & C. (1914)
 Les écrits restent (1917)
 Le Noël d'Yveline (1918)
 Haine (1918)
 Appassionatamente (1919)
 Passionnément (1920)
 Il suo destino (1921)
 La reine Lumière (1921) - Huguette Landry ' Reine Lumière '
 Un drame d'amour (1921) - Diane d'Évremont
 L'aiglonne (1922) - Madame de Navailles
 Mon coeur et ses millions (1931) - Marguerite Mirgaudon
 Un petit trou pas cher (1934)
 La Bandera (1935) - (uncredited)
 Le bébé de l'escadron (1935) - Mathilde
 Marie des angoisses (1935) - Marfa
 Mayerling (1936) - La comtesse Larisch
 Samson (1936) - Grace Ritter
 La Peur (1936) - L'actrice
 Moutonnet (1936) - Dolly
 A Legionnaire (1936) - Maryse
 The Brighton Twins (1936) - Clémentine Beaugérard
 27 Rue de la Paix (1936) - Jenny Clarens
 Au service du tsar (1936) - La comtesse Olga Belsky
 The Lower Depths (1936) - Vassilissa Kostyleva
 White Cargo (1937) - Estella
 La reine des resquilleuses (1937) - Véra
 Arsene Lupin, Detective (1937) - Olga Vauban
 The Call of Life (1937) - Madame Voisin
 Les anges noirs (1937) - Catherine
 Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1937)
 Êtes-vous jalouse? (1938) - Germaine Moreuil
 Rail Pirates (1938) - Jeanne Rolland
 Princess Tarakanova (1938) - L'imperatrice Caterina II / L'impératrice Catherine II
 The Patriot (1938) - Anna Ostermann
 Alexis gentleman chauffeur (1938) - Madame Tabasco aka alias Margot Fontane
 Crossroads (1938) - Michèle Allain
 Berlingot and Company (1939) - Isabelle Grandville
 Farinet ou l'or dans la montagne (1939) - Joséphine Pellanda
 Cas de conscience (1939) - Madeleine Granval
 Strange Suzy (1941) - Suzy
 The Benefactor (1942) - Irène Berger
 Les petits riens (1942) - Louise
 Après l'orage (1943) - Catherine Grand
 The Heart of a Nation (1943) - Estelle Froment adulte
 Shop Girls of Paris (1943) - Madame Desforges
 The London Man (1943) - Camélia
 La Rabouilleuse (1944) - Flore Brazier, la rabouilleuse
 La Malibran (1944) - La comtesse Merlin
 La collection Ménard (1944) - Madame Ménard
 Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945) - Émilie Petersen
 Le cabaret du grand large (1946) - Reine
 Triple enquête (1948) - Irène
 Au royaume des cieux (1949) - Mademoiselle Chamblas
 Clear the Ring (1950) - La comtesse Barinoff
 The Two Girls (1951) - Mademoiselle Bénazer
 Trafic sur les dunes (1951) - Madame Estelle
 The Case of Doctor Galloy  (1951) - L'amie de Mme Guérin
 Follow That Man (1953) - Mme Olga
 Les Compagnes de la nuit (1953) - Pierrette
 Le Feu dans la peau (1954) - Maria, la parfumeuse
 The Babes Make the Law (1955) - Flora - la mère
 Mémoires d'un flic (1956) - Lola
 Lorsque l'enfant paraît (1956) - Madeleine Lonant
 Douze heures d'horloge (1959) - Madame César
 Les lionceaux (1960) - Blanche Eroli
 Profession: Aventuriers (1973) - Eléonore
 Body of My Enemy (1976) - La mère de Marie-Adélaïde (final film role)

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1991 deaths
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Internet changes planned for South Africa – including lower data prices and 5G roll-out
Communications and Digital Technologies minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams met with senior executives in her department this week to discuss a performance agreement that she has entered into with president Cyril Ramaphosa.
The agreement sets out a number of targets which Ndabeni-Abrahams is expected to meet within the next years when it comes to the access of internet services in South Africa.
The performance agreement with the president is legally binding and will be used for measuring the success of the department. Targets in the agreement include the following:
80% of the population must have access to the internet by 2024;
Policy direction in relation to 5G must be issued by December 2021;
A reduction in the cost of data must be achieved;
Monitoring of Icasa and ensuring that the regulator is adequately resourced to license 4G spectrum;
Repositioning of the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to drive the use of local technologies;
Completion of decoder rollout and switching-off analogue transmitters for the Broadcasting Digital Migration project by 2021, and rearranging of spectrum radio frequencies.
"There is an undertaking that the board chairpersons and CEOs of the respective entities will work closely to leverage on each other's strengths and collaborate on key projects to avoid duplications.
"I must add that their commitment was quite encouraging," said Ndabeni-Abrahams.
She added that government has embarked on a state-owned enterprises (SOE's) rationalisation plan, which will see department embark on a process to merge some of its entities.
The state signal distributor SENTECH will be merged with Broadband Infraco to form one state broadband infrastructure company.
Domain name authority .Zadna, the Film and Publications Board, and ICASA will merge to form one regulator. The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa will be repurposed to establish a state-owned digital fund company.
"These mergers are in line with president Ramaphosa's announcement in this year's State of the Nation Address that government will undertake a process of rationalisation of SOEs, to ensure that they serve strategic economic or developmental purposes," Ndabeni-Abrahams said.
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Errol Harris
Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSeTCO)
Morne Daniel (P.O. Box 939)
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1. The Rosalie Sea Turtle Initiative
Location: Coffee Beach and La Plaine Beach, Rosalie Bay
Species: Hawksbill, Green, Leatherback
Objectives: The project seeks to conserve Dominica's Sea Turtle population of Hawksbill, Leatherback and Green turtles. Working closely with communities island-wide, RoSTI organises eductional activites, research and conservation. Sea Turtle watching tours are held in Rosalie and La Plaine.
Contact Info: Please contact RoSTI Turtle hotline at (767) 225-7742
Contact the RoSTI Turtle hotline at 767-225-7742 for information on turtle watching tours or book a stay at 3 Rivers Ecolodge and Sustainable Living Center:
www.3riversdominica.com/activities__wildlife__turtles.php
Forestry and Wildlife Act, Chapter 60:02, Act 12, 1976, Section 21. Ninth Schedule:
1.	The word 'turtle' shall be deemed not to include the tortoise or land turtle (Geochelone carbonaria)
2.	No person shall:
•	Catch or take or attempt to catch or take any turtle between the 1st June and the 30th September, both dates inclusive,
•	Catch or take or attempt to catch or take any turtle which is under twenty pounds in weight, or
•	Disturb any turtle nest or eggs or take any turtle eggs, or take or attempt to take and turtle laying eggs or on the shore engaged in nesting activities.
Basic Course: Final Report Sea Turtle Community Based Eco-tourism, Tour Guiding and Management 11 – 15 September & 1 – 12 October 2007 La Plaine Agricultural Training Centre, Commonwealth of Dominica Suzan Lakhan Baptiste and Dennis Sammy (Nature Seekers)
Byrne, Rowan. 2006. 2006 Annual Project Report: Rosalie Sea Turtle Initiative (RoSTI). Prepared by WIDECAST for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment (Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division). Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. 25 pp.
Byrne, Rowan and Karen Eckert. 2006. 2004-2005 Biennium Project Report: Rosalie Sea Turtle Initiative (RoSTI). Prepared by WIDECAST for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment (Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division). Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. 51 pp.
Edwards, S. 1984. Western Atlantic Turtle Symposium National Report for Dominica. Submitted 15 November 1982. Pp. 161–168. In: P. Bacon et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the Western Atlantic Turtle Symposium, 17–22 July 1983, San José, Costa Rica, III, Appendix 7. University of Miami Press, Florida.
Franklin, A., R. Byrne and K.L. Eckert. 2004. 2003 Annual Report: Rosalie Sea Turtle Initiative (RoSTI). Prepared by WIDECAST for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment (Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division). Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. 57 pp.
Harris, Errol H. and Simon George. 2008. Nesting Ecology and Conservation of Marine Turtles in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies: 2008 Annual Project Report (Karen L. Eckert, Editor). Prepared by the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (Dom-SeTCO), in partnership with WIDECAST, for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division). Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. 59 pp.
Lawrence, N. 1987. National Report for Dominica. Presented to the Second Western Atlantic Turtle Symposium, Mayaguëz, Puerto Rico. Unpublished. 48 pp.
Sammy, Dennis, Karen Eckert and Errol Harris. 2008. Action Plan for a Sea Turtle Conservation and Tourism Initiative in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Prepared by the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), in partnership with Nature Seekers and the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSeTCO), with funding from the United States Agency for International Development. Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica. 59 pp.
Sammy, Dennis and Suzan Lakhan Baptiste. 2008. Community Tourism Handbook: A Resource Guide for Community Groups Participating in Sea Turtle Ecotourism in the Commonwealth of Dominica (Karen L. Eckert, Editor). Prepared by Nature Seekers and WIDECAST, in partnership with the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSeTCO), with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica. 41 pp.
Stapleton, S. P. and K. L. Eckert. 2007. Nesting ecology and conservation biology of marine turtles in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies: RoSTI 2007 Annual Project Report. Prepared by WIDECAST for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment (Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division). Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. 45 pp.
Stapleton, Seth P. and Karen L. Eckert. 2008. Community-Based Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in Dominica: A Manual of Recommended Practices. Prepared by the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST) and the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSeTCO), with funding from the U. S. Agency for International Development. WIDECAST Technical Report No. 8. Beaufort, North Carolina. 47 pp.
Sea Turtles of Dominica
Dominica's Sea Turtles: Slide show
Official Site of Dominica
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Dominica National Nesting Beach Atlas


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Q: AJAX - Wait for data to append before looping next I am creating a drop down list in JavaScript, I am loading the data via Ajax and JSON, at the moment my code loops through a set of departments and runs into the ajax call in each iteration.
My problem is that my data seems to be appending in a random order, its likely that its loading in the order of whichever loads quickest.
I want to be able to loop through my Ajax call and append the data in the order that I declare (for each department).
is this something that can be done?
Here is my code:
//-- Ajax --
var departments = ['Accounts', 'Commercial', 'Installation', 'Production', 'Sales'];
var i;

for (i = 0; i < departments.length; i++) {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "Default.aspx/EmployeesDropDown",
        data: '{X: "' + departments[i] + '"}',
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "text json",
        async: true,
        success: createdropdown,
        failure: function () {
            alert("FAIL!");
        }
    });
}

//-- Creates dropdown --
function createdropdown(data) {
...appends all the data to my drop down list...
  }

Any help or advice is appreciated, thank you in advance.
EDIT: This question is different from the related ones because I need to be able to loop through the string array, rather than just iterating based on numbers.

A: If you want to load the departments in the order they appear in the departments array you could load them one by one, waiting for each ajax request to finish until you start the next request.
Here is an example:

var departments = ['Accounts', 'Commercial', 'Installation', 'Production', 'Sales'];
var i = 0;

function reqDep(department) {

  /*
  Since i can't use ajax here let's use a promise.
  */

  var p = new Promise(function(res, rej) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      res(department)
    }, 1000)
  })
  return p;

  // This is what you would actually do.

  /*
  var data =  '{X: "' + department + '"}'
  return $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "Default.aspx/EmployeesDropDown",
    data: data,
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "text json",
  });
  */
}

function initDepartments(index) {
  reqDep(departments[index])
  // Here you would use `.done(function(data...`
  // I am using `.then(function(data...`
  // because of the promise.
  .then(function(data) {
    console.log(data)
    if(i < departments.length) {
      initDepartments(i)
    }
  })
  i++;
};

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One Tweet Explains Liberal Anxiety Over Merrick Garland's 'Tough on Crime' Past
ByJamilah King
When President Barack Obama announced that Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit would be his nominee for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, the pick was considered relatively safe by liberals. Sure, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already promised that the Senate won't consider Garland's nomination, but Garland also has a long record of Republican support.
At least some of that support may have to do with Garland's "tough-on-crime" approach to criminal justice, which Obama touted in his official announcement Tuesday.
Those three words — "tough on crime" — have played an important role in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton seems to have survived the worst of the backlash to her 20-year-old comments about "super predators," a '90s-era myth about allegedly gang-involved youth of color, along with the 1994 crime bill. But it's nonetheless opened up a conversation on both ends of the political spectrum about the tough-on-crime policies that have driven up America's prison population.
Vox's German Lopez suggested that there are several reasons why Garland may even be to the right of notoriously conservative justice Antonin Scalia, whose place he would be taking on the court if confirmed.
For now, the world — and Garland — will have to play along with the Republicans' waiting game.


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Philly to Set Massive Precedent and Stop Arresting People for Drug Possession—of ALL DRUGS
Maybe this is what will break the back of the Cartel - Police State Meme. After all, we have always had better alternatives.
1 We could simply execute drug addicts or alternately drug dealers. It works well enough for China and it certainly did for Hitler.
2 Alternately we could merely provide free drugs to all addicts. The Cartel disappears and so do the cops.
3 Or perhaps we provide automatic transfer into the boreal forest to help groom the forest until he is deemed cured of addictive tendencies.
Either way we are quickly rid of the problem and the down sizing is quick and brutal.
The continuing transitioning around Cannabis is no recommendation for slow and easy and neither was the long elimination of alcohol prohibition. Simply eliminating the possibility of a criminal charge shuts it all down and we will be left with a handful of sick people who cannot control themselves. Thereafter all drugs remain regulated and any addiction means mandatory therapy. Just like we do with alcoholism today and even that is actually fading..
Since kidnapping and caging people for drugs has proven to be a horrific failure, Philly is proposing a revolutionary new policy to change that paradigm.
By Matt Agorist
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/philly-to-set-massive-precedent-and-stop-arresting-people-for-drug-possession-of-all-drugs/?utm_sour
Philadelphia, PA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told the media this week that his office is "very close" to the prospect of refusing to kidnap and cage people for possessing drugs. This would make Philadelphia a leader in the nation and the first nail in the coffin that is the violent and immoral war on drugs.
Krasner told "Axios on HBO" that instead of kidnapping and caging people for possessing substances deemed illegal by the state—which has shown to be a horrifyingly violent and corrupt failure—those resources will be spent helping the person get clean.
"Possession is different than dealing, it's different than carrying a bunch of drugs you intend to sell or deliver later, it's just possession. We are talking about people who are using drugs, the vast majority of them suffering from addiction. I do not see value in convicting people like that, thereby making it harder for them to get a job," said Krasner. "It seems to me to make a lot more sense to hold them accountable in ways that do not require a conviction. We are very close."
Indeed, helping people fight addiction instead of locking them in a cage is a far more effective solution to the drug problem then locking them in cages or giving them a felony charge which makes them unemployable.
Naturally, the police—who maintain job security, constant pay raises, and acquisition of military gear through enforcing the immoral drug war—disagree with Krasner, and are fear mongering about the possible repercussions of such a policy.
"It's not a good idea," said John McNesby, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "Small amounts of marijuana, fine, but once you start getting into the other scheduled drugs, it's kind of a recipe for disaster."
But multiple studies and actual real life applications of such a failed policy show that McNesby is dead wrong. For decades, the US has been kidnapping, caging, and killing people for drug use and the problem has gotten worse—not better. We now find ourselves in the midst of one of the worst drug epidemics in history and no amount of police force or violence is doing anything to solve it. In fact, it does the exact opposite.
Richard Nixon, in his effort to silence black people and antiwar activists, brought the War on Drugs into full force in 1973. He then signed Reorganization Plan No. 2, which established the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Over the course of five decades, this senseless war has waged on. At a cost of over $1 trillion — ruining and ending countless lives in the process — America's drug war has created a drug problem that is worse now than ever before.
This is no coincidence.
For years, those of us who've been paying attention have seen who profits from this inhumane war — the police state and cartels.
The reason why the drug war actually creates a drug and violence problem is simple. And those who profit most from the drug war — drug war enforcers and cartels — all know it. When the government makes certain substances illegal, it does not remove the demand. Instead, the state creates crime by pushing the sale and control of these substances into the illegal black markets. All the while, demand remains constant.
We can look at the prohibition of alcohol and the subsequent mafia crime wave that ensued as a result as an example. The year 1930, at the peak of prohibition, happened to be the deadliest year for police in American history. 300 police officers were killed, and innumerable poor people slaughtered as the state cracked down on drinkers.
Outlawing substances does not work.
Criminal gangs form to protect sales territory and supply lines. They then monopolize the control of the constant demand. Their entire operation is dependent upon police arresting people for drugs because this grants them a monopoly on their sale.
It is incredibly racist too. The illegality of drug possession and use is what keeps the low-level users and dealers in and out of the court systems, and most of these people are poor black men. As Dr. Ron Paul has pointed out, black people are more likely to receive a harsher punishment for the same drug crime as a white person.
This revolving door of creating and processing criminals fosters the phenomenon known as Recidivism. Recidivism is a fundamental concept of criminal justice that shows the tendency of those who are processed into the system and the likelihood of future criminal behavior.
The War on Drugs takes good people and turns them into criminals every single minute of every single day. The system is setup in such a way that it fans the flames of violent crime by essentially building a factory that turns out violent criminals.
The system knows this too — as the very existence of the police state is dependent upon the drug war. When drugs are legal, there are far fewer doors to kick in, fines to collect, profit prisons to fill, and money to steal.
When drugs are legalized, gang violence drops too — drastically. Not only does it have a huge effect on the localized gangs in America, but the legalization of drugs is crippling to the violent foreign drug cartels too.
This is why the Free Thought Project and other open-minded groups all advocate bringing this bloody and criminally ineffective drug war to a sudden and grinding halt.
Hopefully, this move in Philly is the beginning of a snowball effect that will bring the war on drugs to its knees.


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#RememberWhensdays: Nelson Mandela visits Yankee Stadium
The South African icon enjoyed a raucous welcome in the States
Former South African President, Nelson Mandela, in a jovial mood at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005 where he met with the winner and runner-up of the local " Idols" competition. The 87-year-old former political prisoner who became the country's first black president in 1994 remains a popular high profile figure since retiring from public life in recent years. AP Photo/Denis Farrell
By Ryan Cortes	@Ryan_Cortes
This article has been resurfaced in honor of what would have been Nelson Mandela's 98th birthday. It was originally published as part of The Undefeated's #RememberWhensdays series.
More than 1 million people filled the streets of New York over a three-day stretch in June 1990. There was a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes, a Harlem street rally, a speech at a Brooklyn high school and, finally, an electric Yankee Stadium concert.
It was just the start.
The three-day whirlwind New York trip was part of a larger six-week Freedom Tour that saw one man visit 13 different countries. One historic man, that is: Nelson Mandela.
The South African activist who would be elected president in 1994 was a champion of peaceful protests and a global advocate for human rights, forever working to try to end apartheid. His leadership and principles were rewarded — with a nearly three-decade prison sentence in 1962.
Nelson Mandela acknowledges the crowd after donning a New York Yankees warm-up jacket and cap during a rally in his honor Thursday, June 22, 1990 at New York's Yankee Stadium. He told the crowd, "I am a Yankee."
AP Photo/Ron Frehm
But after serving 27 years in prison, Mandela wasn't broken or bitter. He was emboldened. When he finally emerged on the other side of the prison gates as a free man, he raised both fists high into the sky in a black power salute. As the New York Daily News wrote then:
Mandela's first word to tens of thousands of blacks who had not seen his face or heard his voice for 27 years was one of defiance.
"Amandla!" — Power! — he shouted in a firm but slightly scratchy voice.
Thousands of voices rang out with the reply: "Awethu!" — Is ours!
A little more than four months following his release, Mandela would have Yankee Stadium packed to the gills, the crowd chanting a familiar call: "Amandla! Amandla!"
At the time, Mandela was 71, but you couldn't tell on first glance. Before leading the crowd at Yankee Stadium on June 21, 1990, Mandela delivered a speech at Riverside Church that culminated with folks dancing in the aisles. Before the church service, Mandela delivered speeches outside the chapel and he received a check for $200,000 to be used for schools, housing, medicine and refugee assistance in South Africa. Winnie, Mandela's wife at the time, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson flanked Mandela, as a standing ovation emerged.
"Do I look like a tired man?" Mandela asked the New York Times.
The entire Freedom Tour featured people from all over the country clamoring to meet Mandela and shake his hand. But New York, in particular, was littered with folks trying to show their appreciation for the man. As the New York Times wrote, "Longtime liberal fundraiser Arthur Krim hosted a cocktail party at his East Side townhouse, with guests laying out $1,000 a head to greet Mandela. Oscar winner Robert De Niro invited Mandela to his new Tribeca Film Center, where the star-studded crowd included Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams and rocker Little Steven Van Zandt."
All eyes were on Mandela at the end of the third night in New York as he spoke to 55,000 fans inside Yankee Stadium. By the time he was done, Mandela would be clad in Yankees garb. From the New York Times:
Mr. Mandela ended his speech by embracing New York as the city has embraced him. "The people of New York, we admire you, we respect you and, above all, we love you," he said.
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Mayor David N. Dinkins then placed a Yankee jacket on Mr. Mandela's shoulders and a Yankee hat on his head. Mr. Mandela smiled and declared: "You now know who I am. I am a Yankee."
Even former Yankees owner/curmudgeon George Steinbrenner couldn't help but be impressed. After the rollicking speech, Steinbrenner showed up at City Hall the next morning with a check to cover all the expenses incurred from Mandela's three-day fundraiser, according to the New York Daily News.
Ryan Cortes is a staff writer for The Undefeated. Lemon pepper his wings.
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Every woman wishes to have clear, blemish-free skin. However, the problem of acne may cause blemishes on the skin. Every woman wants to know how to get rid of acne. However, there is no fixed treatment or method that can help one instantly get rid of the problem. If one finds out the specific cause of their acne problem, they can treat it better. There are certain natural and home remedies that will surely help everyone manage their acne problem. The best thing about these home remedies is that while they help you manage acne they also help you in weight loss the natural way.
Consuming a lot of sugar or sugar products can increase your acne problem while adding weight. Sugar can not only aggravate the problem but also trigger it. Although completely eliminating sugar from your nutritional plan is not possible, you should try to reduce the amount as much as possible. If you crave sweets after dinner, it is advisable that you opt for fruits instead of any dessert. Staying away from sugar has many benefits for the body.
There are chances that the dairy products that you consume may increase your acne problem. Cutting down on dairy items can eliminate or reduce acne.
The most important thing that can help you get a blemish-free skin is a healthy diet. Maintaining a healthy diet not only benefits the skin but also your body. A healthy diet helps you in healthy weight loss while solving your acne problem. Eating the right things can get a glow on your face and eliminate the problem of acne. In order to eat healthy, one must avoid eating fast foods and processed foods. Limiting the consumption of red meat can also reduce acne. One must increase the intake of water and avoid sugary drinks. Raw vegetable too can be healthy for both skin and body.
There is no substitute to exercising on a daily basis. You will lose a burn a lot of fat this way and sweat a lot as well. Sweating cleans the pores and makes your skin glow. It not only gives you a better skin, but also an excellent body. So, this way, you lose weight while getting a glowing skin.
It is important for every woman to get her beauty sleep. Your sleep patterns, stress, and hormones can affect your skin. Moreover, it's amazing how sleeplessness can make you eat a lot more than you should, leading to extra weight gain.
Be very cautious about what you apply on your face. It is better to use natural remedies to avoid any damage. Using products that contain harsh chemicals that don't suit your skin can damage it. It is advisable to opt for home remedies for pimples that have no side effects.
One of the best home remedies for acne is to drink plenty of water. Keep yourself hydrated to get a naturally glowing skin. This natural drink not only makes your skin vibrant, but also makes you lose weight naturally by flushing out dangerous toxins from your body.


On 15 July 2014 the online Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) launched the electronic version of the proceedings from the 2014 Asia-Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage held in Honolulu, Hawaii in May. One of the great things about this conference is its organizers' dedication to making the papers freely available online. A small team of editors made sure that presenters followed the established format and then handed the PDF's off to the MUA web team for online publication using Omeka software developed at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
After examining the online proceedings one might argue there are better ways to digitally present the papers but that's a minor point when compared to the larger aim of the free distribution of knowledge. The cost to create the online proceedings was minimal. The labor, server space, and bandwidth were all donated. With this being the case my question is this: why don't all conferences do this?
How many conference sessions have we all been to when competing papers of excellent quality had fifty or less viewers in the audience? Papers from the 2011 Asia-Pacific conference proceedings held in Manila, Philippines have had thousands of downloads in the last three years. Isn't that sort of sharing and spreading of knowledge what academia is supposed to be about?
Some have argued that not all conference papers are of equal quality and therefore should be withheld from distribution. To this I would argue that yes I've seen some poor papers over the years but the online proceedings captures a moment in time and represents the state of the field (whatever the discipline) warts and all. I believe it is better to let a few poor papers get through in order to also preserve the rest that might otherwise be lost to obscurity. If the authors of bad papers are willing to stand up and present them then they have accepted the responsibility for their paper's quality for better or worse.
I was not able to attend the 2014 Asia Pacific conference this past May but I can attend it now, or next year, or the year after that when I discover through my online search that an obscure paper presented there is exactly what I needed to see. We need to encourage our various professional societies to abandon the model of charging money for printed proceedings at the expense of freely available online versions. In some cases the printed versions lose money or at best generate little income. We need to ask ourselves do we conduct our research and present papers to make money or to increase the body of knowledge in our respective fields.
Save and share the knowledge.
The Institute of Maritime History (IMH) just posted an update on the MUA about all the projects they are working on in 2009. It has been a busy year for this group of avocational and professional underwater archaeologists. Check out their post on projects from Florida to Massachusetts to see an excellent model of how the public and professionals can work together to preserve shipwrecks and other submerged sites. It's a great alternative to the tired conflict between archaeologists and treasure hunters.
Back in the 1970s, when I first became interested in protecting shipwrecks, the picture was pretty bleak. In the United States, there was no national legislation to protect shipwrecks or other submerged archaeological sites. Among the very few states with protective legislation, most imposed few—if any—archaeological requirements, and the bulk of the recovered cultural material was given to the salvors. Frequently, salvors turned to the Admiralty courts where they were usually designated "salvor in possession," often being given complete control of the site and its contents.
How Do You Make an Underwater Archaeologist?
Underwater archaeologist Mark Staniforth and the Museum of Underwater Archaeology are pleased to announce the 2008 Flinders University Field School Project Journal. Follow along as a new international group of students start their underwater training in Australia. Project journals such as this offer the public the opportunity to see how future underwater archaeologists learn the skills necessary to explore, record, preserve, and learn from submerged cultural resources.
We hope you enjoy this latest addition to the Museum of Underwater Archaeology.


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CASE: Metso Minerals
From daily management to management in real-time – Metso Minerals eliminates manufacturing inefficiencies using LeanwareMES
Metso Minerals is based in Tampere and manufactures crushing and screening machinery. The company has accelerated the visual management of manufacturing using LeanwareMES. The system refresh that grew from a limited-scope pilot to a development project for the entire plant, used the needs of employees as the foundation on the path to continuous production improvement.
"Due to visualizing production, the correct information is always instantly available where it is needed, from installer to sales representative. LeanwareMES has, for example, helped eliminate losses due to lack of materials and improve reaction times and throughput", says Toni Salovuori, Production Manager.
The need to improve information flow and transparency in manufacturing led Metso Minerals to the discovery of the manufacturing execution system in 2014. Small exceptions in production may easily not be reported, as reporting relies on memory and repetition is hard to recognize without proper tools and data.
"It was a reality that an installer could reach for a component that was not there and parts were missing during assembly, even though the ERP was showing that everything was in order. The need to move from daily management to real-time monitoring and daily management also required the system to be refreshed", explains Salovuori.
Results by putting people first
According to Salovuori, the issue with missing components was addressed with MES, as soon as actual data was available. According to the production manager, the value in the system refresh is best described in its ability to support employees in different tasks, which is also the guiding principle of the further development of the system.
"MES as a local tool helps both installers and management in daily tasks. The real-time entry of exceptions reduces the need to rely on memory. Up-to-date information also shortens the learning curve, allowing an installer to move from one work station to another quicker than before", says Salovuori.
Participation in developing the system has been open to everyone working at Metso Minerals. Salovuori also praised Leanware's attitude and active approach collecting user feedback.
"Systems alone accomplish nothing. It's the people around them taking action and doing things. Close cooperation between members throughout our manufacturing team and Leanware's project team is the secret to our success with the system refresh. It was really good to see that we were able to work face-to-face with Leanware and seek solutions in a positive manner focusing on development. Leanware has expressed a strong desire to understand and see for themselves who the system is being implemented for and why."
From front runner to marathon runner
The digitalization of manufacturing at the Lokomo plant has taken significant leaps forward and progressed from one production line to another. By the end of the year, half of the plant will be managed by MES and the system refresh will include all areas during next year. According to Salovuori, the interest in using MES outside of manufacturing in other areas of the organization has grown as the adoption phase has progressed. The organization's front runner is steadily moving forward on the path of continuous improvement.
"The development work never ends and there are a lot of opportunities and plans to utilize the collected data. It is important, however, to take one step at a time and produce new content, when necessary, based on user feedback. The cooperation with Leanware has been productive throughout our journey and is still strong today", says Salovuori.