With acres of attractions and shows, it is little wonder that hiking all over Disney theme parks might leave you wishing for a break from the hot sun. If you are not willing to give up your touring time and settle for a cool drink by the pool, consider booking one of Disney's Segway tours. Available at Disneyland and Disney World, these tours allow you to rest your aching feet and skirt past the guests on foot as you see Disney from a new vantage point.
Segway Personal Transporters are self-balancing machines that use gyroscopes and tilt sensors to allow riders to travel at speeds up to 12.5 miles per hour aboard an innovative two-wheeled platform. Since the transporters run off electricity, the Segway is a zero-emissions vehicle, making it more environmentally friendly than a boat or car tour. The vehicle responds to movements from the user, moving forward when you lean forward, and turning when you move the LeanSteer frame.
Guests can book a two-hour Segway tour at Disney World's Epcot, an expansive theme park more than twice the size of the Magic Kingdom. World Showcase, where the majority of the Segway tour takes place, is situated around the World Showcase Lagoon and introduces guests to 11 separate country pavilions.
Disneyland guests can schedule a three-hour tour at Disney's California Adventure Park before the park opens to regular guests. California Adventure showcases some of the best-known features of California, including a high-flying tour of the state on Soarin'.
Guests at Epcot travel the entire 1.3-mile World Showcase Promenade. Disney re-created each country in painstakingly intricate and accurate detail, and your guide will share some of the highlights and secrets with your group.
The tour at California Adventure cruises through an empty park, allowing guests to take in the park details without fighting the crowds. The sparkling lagoon at the park's center is surrounded by colorful rides, and the guides share the backstory of each attraction during the tour.
At Epcot, admission is not included in the price of the tour, but it is required. At California Adventure, admission is not required because it takes place before the park opens. Both facilities offer discounts to annual passholders.
Each tour begins with a training session, so prior Segway experience is not necessary. Due to Segway constraints, guests must weigh between 100 and 250 pounds, and Disney provides all needed safety equipment. The tour is available only to guests ages 16 and older.
Both tours take place outdoors, so sunblock is a must for those with sensitive skin. Close-toed shoes are required, and sneakers are highly recommended. For an exceptionally beautiful tour at Epcot, plan your visit during the holidays to see authentic Christmas decorations in each country, or during the spring to see Epcot's International Flower and Garden Festival to see elaborate floral displays and beds. At California Adventure, the Food and Wine Festival takes place from mid-April through May.
Marquez, Ashley. "Disney Segway Tours." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/disney-segway-tours-11506.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.


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Dans la mythologie Tagalog (Philippines), Mayari est la déesse de la Lune. Elle est la fille de Bathala, le roi des dieux. Elle est la sœur de Tala, déesse des étoiles et de Hanan, déesse du jour.

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I write this just two days before the holiday of Passover — a holiday incomparably rich with spiritual depth and meaning. It has always been striking to me that even Jews who have become distant from observing most other holidays or the Sabbath, participate eagerly in a Passover seder. There is something so momentous in the historical sweep of the narrative, so much to consider and review about God's personal intervention in the Jewish exodus from slavery to peoplehood, that it's no wonder this holiday has such staying power.
For those of you who celebrate Passover, I wish you a meaningful and inspiring experience!
Speaking of Passover, here is a column I wrote titled Invite These Five Women to Your Seder, about the women who were instrumental in the Exodus story.
I will also have an essay in the Jewish Journal titled "The Atheist at the Seder," which should be online by March 29. If you've read my memoir, The Skeptic and the Rabbi, you will recognize the story and, I hope, will appreciate the message!
Unrelated to Passover, I also have a review of a new movie called A Bag of Marbles, about the extraordinary experience of two French brothers during the Holocaust and how they survived. It is in French with English subtitles, and is currently in theaters in L.A. and New York, with a continued rollout to other cities in coming weeks.
I find myself returning to favorite reads now and then, including Sense and Sensibility (followed, of course, by the excellent 1995 film adaptation) and Edith Wharton's short story collection Roman Fever. I also just finished The House at Tyneford and We Were the Lucky Ones, both of which are World War II-period novels, both very well done. For Passover reading, I bought a Hagaddah with brilliant and deep insightful commentary by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Have you been meaning to download a copy of The Skeptic and the Rabbi, but haven't gotten around to it yet? Don't wait any longer! Now through April 14, the ebook versions on Kindle, Nook and Kobo are only .99!
"Honesty shines throughout the book, as Gruen refuses to sugarcoat her narrative. The memoir is a terrific read for anyone curious about the Torah lifestyle," wrote Leah Aharoni in her review of my book in the current issue of Jewish Action Magazine.
After a long winter, I am heartened to see the first buds on one of my favorite trees in my backyard — you'd think I would know the name of it if it's my favorite, but I do not. The pink buds will slowly open into lovely heart-shaped green leaves, and our lemon tree is sprouting new fruits every day, which I look forward to picking and using in my tea and in my cooking.
I am still — still! — not back to my full energy. My malaise has been slightly mysterious, and I have dosed up on Chinese herbs, supplements, rest, acupuncture, chiropractic sessions, and contemplation. Maybe I did that in the wrong order! All are working, but too slowly for my impatient self. One lesson I know I have to learn is to just accept what is happening and have faith that God will allow me to regain my full strength as He renews and restores the bloom on trees and plants for spring.
Wishing you all good health, happiness and the pleasures of spring!


Μετά την άκρως επιτυχημένη παρουσία του στην gamescom 2016, το For Honor επιστρέφει με την Closed Alpha δοκιμαστική έκδοσή του, από σήμερα και μέχρι τις 18 Σεπτεμβρίου.
Στο YouTube μπορείτε να βρείτε και τα τρέιλερ για τα Berserker, Conqueror, Orochi και τον Samurai Hero.
After an award-winning Gamescom, For Honor™ puts players back on the battlefield with the first closed alpha on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC. From September 15th to September 18th, players from all over the world will join a cruel and bloody battlefield to measure their skills with the steel of their blades. Those still waiting to pledge their sword can sign up to have a chance to participate in the closed alpha at http://www.forhonorgame.com.
To get the latest news and content about For Honor and have a chance to participate in our upcoming alphas and betas, please register at http://www.forhonorgame.com.
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Q: Is Gotham the capital of the United States? In Black Lightning, Agent Odell, the head of the ASA, lives in Gotham. The commission to examine the truth of the ASA's involvement in Freeland is also held in Gotham, not Freeland. Former ASA agent Lady Eve, similarly, was offered the chance to relocate there.
In real life, the head of a federal agency would generally live in or near Washington DC, the capital, and a hearing on a matter of national import involving the federal government would probably also occur there. That said, I feel like someone mentioned Washington D.C. once.
Is Gotham the capital of the US in this series or in other DC works?

A: No, Gotham would not be the capital of the US, at least in the post-Crisis Arrowverse which united Black Lightning, the original Arrowverse shows, and Supergirl on the same world. In The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl there have been references to Washington as the capital, and on The Flash, when they presented a large map showing some locations where things had changed from Earth-1 pre-Crisis (such as the Fortress of Solitude from Earth-38 and Gorilla City from Earth-2 now being present), Washington was not indicated as being any different, which one would think would be notable.
As a final nail in the coffin, Legends of Tomorrow operated out of the Washington D.C. headquarters of the Time Bureau, aside from travelling there in the past, and Washington is explicitly the capital.

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UT Health Science Center Library > Treasures of the P.I. Nixon > William Withering and the beginnings of modern therapeutics
William Withering and the beginnings of modern therapeutics
Image of William Withering
Digoxin is a modern drug used to treat irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, and congestive heart failure and to relieve symptoms of edema associated with congestive heart failure. The Western world of medicine's knowledge of Digoxin's incredible ability to help treat certain heart diseases was due to the efforts of an English physician called William Withering.
William Withering was born on March 17, 1741, in Wellington, Shropshire and died Oct. 6, 1799, in the town of Sparkbrook in England. He was influenced by his father, Edmund, who was an apothecary, the equivalent of a modern day pharmacist, and his uncle, Brook Hector, who was a physician. In the modern medical school, medical students participate in a residency program, which is akin to an apprenticeship, after 4 years of medical school. During Withering's time in 1762, Withering enrolled in the University of Edinburg in Scotland after 4 years as an apprentice, the opposite of today's system. The medical curriculum of this period was heavily focused on botany, probably playing a part in shaping Withering's intellectual understanding of plants and human health.
After his schooling, Withering relocated to the town of Stafford, where he visited private patients and worked as a founding physician of the Stafford General Infirmary. During this time period, Withering participated in his hobby of botany and, through this, met his wife, Helena Cookes, who sketched the plants he collected. In 1779, Withering served as a founder of Birmingham General Hospital, where many poor people were treated free of charge
Experiments with Foxglove
William Withering started to conduct experiments to demonstrate the uses of the foxglove plant in 1776 after an experience with one of his patients. Withering had been treating a lady suffering from edema and had expected her to die, but he was surprised to discover that she had recovered after ingesting a folk cure prepared from digitalis, a plant commonly called foxglove. This lead him to write An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses, a book published in 1785 that gave him a lasting reputation. The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library owns a copy of this book.
The book describes Withering's clinical experience with the purple foxglove, a weed containing therapeutic substances called cardiac glycosides used in modern drugs such as digoxin. The book basically details a 10 year clinical trial of digitalis (the modern name for the drug after the Latin name for the plant, Digitalis purpure) and was published to guard the medical community of the time period against misuse of this powerful drug. In the book he discusses treating 158 patients with foxglove and how 101 of them experienced relief from heart failure. He also wrote about the correct single dosage that should be used when administering foxglove, which is only slightly less than today's modern digoxin tablet. The method that Withering detailed for creating medicine from the foxglove plant is also the same method that modern drug manufactures use, albeit on a grander scale, to extract digitalis from the foxglove plant.
Image of William Withering's An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses. P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
Image of William Withering's An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses with the fold out insert showing a colored illustration of the Foxglove plant. P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
Appreciatively,
Manasseh "Manny" Ngigi, Nursing School student
"Foxglove." WebMD. Viewed 1/23/ 2015. http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-287-DIGITALIS.aspx?activeIngredientId=287&activeIngredientName=DIGITALIS .
Wilson, Philip. "William Withering." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Viewed 1/23/ 2015. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/646127/William-Withering .
"The lifesaving foxglove." UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. Viewed 1/23/ 2015. http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Digitalis/index.html
"Digitalis." Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis Viewed 1/23/2015.
Norman, Jeremy. "William Withering and the Purple Foxglove: A Bicentennial Tribute." Jeremy Norman's History of Science. Viewed 1/23/2015. http://www.historyofscience.com/articles/jmnorman-william-withering.php
"William Withering" by After Carl Frederik von Breda – [1] [2]. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons –http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Withering.jpg#mediaviewer/File:William_Withering.jpg
Book images are from the copy owned by the P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
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In this horrid age of LGBTQ kids taking their own lives and being beaten for who they are, need to know that they're BEAUTIFUL, as Christine's song goes. Bullies that facilitate those tragedies be it verbal or otherwise should be taught that homophobia is NOT okay. Children and parents need to learn that acceptance of humankind, even puppets, would indeed plant a seed of peace that will reverberate throughout the universe. We are not asking that Sesame Street depict anything crude or disrespectful; this is NOT about any other issue other than education. Sesame Street claims Bert and Ernie are only friends, though that's how marriage begins, right? If they are ONLY puppets, why do they have HUMAN traits and traditions and families? This should not be the end of the issue as why hasn't Sesame Street extended an olive branch out to this new era of one worldness, be inclusive, and offer to develope contemporary LGBTQ puppets and human characters? It would prove to past and current viewers that it's spelled L-O-V-E, not H8.
Although Sesame Street is not the only children's multimedia educational marketing project, there are questions that blankets this entire awkward situation such as how many classic story characters have been created where the young character yearns nothing more than to be married for love and how many of them have been LGBTQ characters ? IF Cinderella was written in as a lesbian, how much would it change our "views" and affect our lives?? It's only one question that needs to be addressed to include our global LGBTQ village.
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The idea for the award arose following discussions about whether to relocate the bronze sculpture at the town hall. Hundreds of people from Bremen put forward suggestions as to how the city's emblem could be better presented. The award, handed out for the first time in August 2009, aims to raise public awareness of the Bremen Town Musicians.
The award is given in four categories: media, tourism/city marketing, culture and community service. The individual awards are sponsored by a number of Bremen-based organisations, which have the task of choosing worthy award winners.
The media award is conferred by Radio Bremen and the Weser Kurier newspaper. It acknowledges the works of individuals who have promoted Bremen on the radio, in the press and on TV.
Services in the field of city marketing and tourism are recognised by the Verkehrsverein der Freien Hansestadt Bremen e.V. and Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH. The award in this category is bestowed upon people who communicate a positive image of Bremen around the world.
The culture award is given by the Internationales Kulturforum Theater Bremen e.V. It commends achievements that enrich the cultural landscape of the city and therefore enhance Bremen's reputation as a culturally diverse city.
Jens Böhrnsen, the Mayor of Bremen, rewards community service with an award that honours those who sacrifice their time for others, and whose activities show Bremen as a city with a strong sense of togetherness.
The media award was given to popular comedian, Vicco von Bülow, better known as Loriot. He has recorded a number of TV sketches for Radio Bremen and has close links with the city. The award was jointly sponsored by Radio Bremen and the Weser Kurier newspaper. Loriot was unfortunately unable to attend the ceremony, but arranged for one of his pictures to be presented to the city as a gesture of thanks.
The award in the marketing category was given to Werder Bremen football club, which is the most prominent symbol of the city alongside the Town Musicians. The team has given Bremen international recognition, conveying an image of an attractive, welcoming city. Despite the club's success, Werder Bremen stands for modesty and understatement. In a recent survey, Werder Bremen was again confirmed as the most likeable club in the Bundesliga.
Bremen Theatre presented the culture award to actor and performer, Armin Müller-Stahl. On many occasions, he has put the city in the spotlight by way of readings or radio plays in collaboration with Radio Bremen. His pictures featured at the opening of the Menschenbilder exhibition at the Bremen Theatre gallery in 2007. Armin Müller-Stahl is one of the few German actors to have found international fame. He recently appeared in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling book Angels & Demons.
Former Mayor, Henning Scherf, and Brigitte Boehme, president of the Protestant Church in Bremen, were given the community service award to thank them for Bremen's 32nd Protestant Church Festival. Brigitte Boehme accepted the award on behalf of all the voluntary workers who helped out at the major event in May. Henning Scherf was largely responsible for the festival being organised in the city.
Lights, camera, action: Town Musicians Award 2010!
A host of leading lights and rising stars came together at Bremen Theatre on 19 August 2010 for a second year to attend the Town Musicians Award ceremony.
The Town Musicians Award is bestowed on those who have spread Bremen's fame far beyond its borders and who have presented the city in a positive light to the world – just as the four fairytale characters in the story of the Bremen Town Musicians have done. This year's winners included the actresses Katja Riemann (in the Arts category) and Sabine Postel (Media category) and the American pop art artist James Rizzi (City Marketing category). The members of Bremen's Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra were honoured for their services to the community. As in the previous year, high-profile guests and speakers – Thomas Schaaf, Dieter Pfaff and Manfred Zapatka – joined the winners in the limelight.
"I learned how to do TV in Bremen", said comedian Hape Kerkeling at the awards ceremony. More than 25 years ago, at the beginning of his career, he worked for local broadcaster Radio Bremen in shows such as the cult hit 'Total normal'. Host Barbara Schöneberger declared herself to be a great Hape Kerkeling fan in her warm and entertaining tribute.
"Audition, 11 o'clock, Zadek." These words, written on a piece of paper that the actor has kept to this day, marked the start of Vadim Glowna's acting career in Bremen. "Everything I know about theatre I learned from Zadek and Hübner." And in Bremen, of course.
"It is great to have you as a friend", said the painter and sculptor Bruno Bruni in his tribute to this year's recipient of the culture award.
In his gushing tribute to the Blaumeier Atelier arts project the writer David Safier declared: "Blaumeiers transform and enchant the city, they radiate a humorous warmth and spread truth in a heartfelt way." And that is exactly what they do. Hellena Hartung, who accepted the award for service to the community on behalf of the Blaumeier Atelier, stated that she had never dreamed of receiving such an honour.
The geologist and director of the Marum centre for marine environmental sciences, Gerold Wefer, was honoured for his achievements in communicating scientific discoveries to the public in an engaging and entertaining way. Federal Education Minster Annette Schavan praised the spiritual father of the Universum Science Center as "a man who doesn't just engage in science, but who also spends every day thinking about how to put science at the centre of society".


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Pac-12 calls for sweeping change, greater urgency in "Big Five" reform
By JJ StankevitzMay 21, 2014, 10:03 AM EDT
The Associated Press obtained a letter sent from Pac-12 university presidents to their colleagues in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC pushing a greater sense of urgency in making sweeping changes to the NCAA model to give more autonomy to "Big Five" schools.
Spurred by Northwestern's unionization vote, the Pac-12 presidents want to get out of in front of the concerns raised by Kain Colter and the NLRB. The letter, in part, reads:
it is clear from the recent statements of any number of individuals that, while they may share or view that labor unions are not the answer, the time has come for a meaningful response both to the student-athletes' grievances and the need to reassert the academic primacy of our mission.
The complete list of proposals in the letter are in the AP story, but a few jumped out:
— Decrease the demands placed on the athlete in-season, correspondingly increase the time available for studies and campus life, by preventing the abuse of organized "voluntary" practices to circumvent the limit of 20 hours per week and more realistically assess the time away from campus and other commitments during the season.
— Similarly decrease time demands out of season by reducing out-of-season competition and practices, and by considering shorter seasons in specific sports.
— Further strengthen the Academic Progress Rate requirements for postseason play.
— Liberalize the current rules limiting the ability of student-athletes to transfer between institutions.
The first two there would seem to be designed to provide student-athletes with more time both in and out of season for studying, though perhaps those "voluntary" workouts are so ingrained in college football's culture that curbing them would be difficult. The same goes for weight training, conditioning, film study, etc. — unless someone is monitoring what a player does 24/7, it'll be impossible to tell that player to not focus on football outside of practice.
In short: Players still may find a way to spend 40-60 hours a week on football, even if there's a mandate against it.
Strengthening the APR requirements for postseason play could get interesting — Oklahoma State became the first power conference school to lose practice time due to a poor APR. Programs that don't place as much emphasis on academics may have to … or they could find loopholes and ways to skate by to stay bowl eligible.
The last one would be a much-welcome change. However that liberalization of the transfer rules would manifest itself, it'd likely be for the better.
There's more in the letter — more money and longer guarantees for scholarships, extended medical care, allowing some form of agent contact — that the Pac-12 presidents are pushing. They hope to receive responses by June 4 and continue to move quickly on these issues.
"We acknowledge the core objectives could prove to be expensive and controversial, but the risks of inaction or moving too slowly are far greater," the letter reads. "The time for tinkering with the rules and making small adjustments is over."
Tags: Kain Colter, Northwestern
Northwestern alums say players being pushed to vote against union
By Kevin McGuireApr 17, 2014, 10:51 AM EDT
A meeting of former Northwestern football players Wednesday night brought attention to concerns that current players were being pressured to vote no on an upcoming vote to determine if Northwestern football players will form a union. Some Northwestern alums suggested current players on the football team have been receiving phone calls from alumni pushing them to vote no on the union next week.
The biggest problem right now is a state of confusion over the impact of players at Northwestern forming a union could potentially mean. The NCAA and the university will lead you to think it could be the beginning of the dismantling of many other sports at the division one level, but that could just be an extreme worst-case scenario. The biggest push right now by this players union movement is to have a seat at the table with Northwestern leaders and have their voices heard.
"We want the facts to be the facts," said Kevin Brown, a former Northwestern football player from the 1980s. Brown did not take stance for or against the union vote, at least not in front of the media attending the meeting Wednesday night, but his message seemed pretty clear. Get out as much information as possible so the players can make an informed decision when they cast their ballot.
Some alumni believe the players should voice their concerns directly to the head coach, Pat Fitzgerald.
"They could have taken these issues straight to Coach Fitz and Northwestern," former Northwestern quarterback Dan Persa said. "It's frustrating to see your coach and your school come under fire like this."
Fitzgerald has been on record speaking against the union idea and he has said he wants his players to think long and hard before voting on unionization. If it were up to Fitzgerald, Northwestern players would vote no. There is no indication Fitzgerald is applying pressure on players to vote no, but he will not shy away from voicing his concerns for the best interest of his players.
"We want to make sure that they have all the information, so that's a process we're starting to work through right now," Fitzgerald said earlier this month. "I'm honored to have that opportunity with our guys and we'll work through it day by day."
A regional office of the National Labor Relations Board empowered players to hold such a vote, recognizing the football players as employees of Northwestern University. The players are set to vote on forming a union next week, although there are mixed emotions when it comes to whether or not it is a good idea. Now former quarterback Kain Colter has become the face of the union movement at Northwestern but earlier this month it was his replacement under center, Trevor Siemian who voiced his concerns about the formation of a union. Northwestern is prepared to contest the ruling all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary, which has been expected from the start.
When it comes time to vote on forming a union, will there be enough votes to take the next step?
Tags: Dan Persa, Kain Colter, Kevin Brown, Northwestern, Pat Fitzgerald, Trevor Siemia, Trevor Siemian
Trevor Siemian comes out against union as Northwestern files appeal
By John TaylorApr 9, 2014, 4:08 PM EDT
There were a couple of developments on the unionization of Northwestern football players, one of which served as no surprise and the other that may raise more than a couple of eyebrows.
On the latter front, Trevor Siemian, who supplanted Kain Colter as the Wildcats' starting quarterback, came out Wednesday afternoon decidedly against the push to unionize his team specifically and the sport of college football in general. According to Siemian, he failed to gather enough information to form an educated opinion of the union push, whose public face has been that of Colter.
Instead of the union, Siemian said, the players should've taken any issues they may have had with the current system to NU's administrators, including head coach Pat Fitzgerald. (How that would've helped assuage the players and their issues is unknown.) In fact, Siemian lauded the university and his experience at the school.
"I've had an unbelievable experience here, an unbelievable experience. And I think this all began with the best intentions, sure. I feel that way, and a lot of guys on the team feel that way, but given our circumstance here with the way we're treated, you know, I'm treated far better than I deserve here and introducing a third party or somebody else especially when our main goals when this began is there are issues with the NCAA that we thought we could address and that was one of the ways to do it but nothing has been exhausted from within the school, you know? Myself included, nobody has ever addressed (Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald) or (NU athletics director) Dr. Phillips about these issues, and two of these guys all of us have come here and trusted so much. I've known Coach Fitz for five or six years now, and to say I don't trust you enough to help us out and make these changes I don't think is the right way to go."
(Tip O' the Quote Cap: Marcus Hartman)
A total of 76 Northwestern football players are eligible to vote for or against a union, an election that is scheduled to take place April 25. In order for the football team to unionize, more than half of the players would need to vote in favor of allowing the College Athletics Players Association to collectively bargain with the university for them.
Surprisingly, Siemian doesn't see a pro-union landslide in the offing.
"I can only speak for myself but I'll say there's a significant amount of guys on the team that feel similar to me," the quarterback said.
In addition to Siemian's comments, Northwestern, as has been expected, officially filed an appeal of the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago regional office's ruling that NU football players are employees. That appeal, which can be viewed in its entirety HERE, will be heard at an undetermined date in Washington D.C.
Tags: Kain Colter, Northwestern, Trevor Siemian
College players union movement has NFLPA's support
If there is one established union that best understands the desires, demands and points of view of college football players, it is the NFL Players Association. The NFLPA is supporting the players union movement at Northwestern, and likely would lend support to any other players unions that could follow in the footsteps of a successful union push at Northwestern.
DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFLPA, wrote a column for The Huffington Post Tuesday, laying out the reasons the NFLPA supports the movement led by Northwestern's Kain Colter. Smith notes the opinions expressed by university officials, coaches and NCAA officials is off the mark.
"The response of the NCAA, the university president and people who don't want to hear Kain and his teammates is essentially, "Shut up and play." The NCAA sells and wants college athletes to be a team everywhere except in a room where they can talk about the issues they care about," Smith writes. "The truth is that they do not want a team that demands a response from a system that makes millions from their play."
There is still some work to be done before Northwestern players officially form the first college players union in the country. A vote is set for later this month where Northwestern players will vote to form an official union. Head coach Pat Fitzgerald is urging his players to vote no, and the university is still on track to challenge the ruling made by the National Labor Relations Board.
Tags: DeMaurice Smith, Kain Colter, Northwestern, Pat Fitzgerald
Late April date set for Northwestern union vote
Three weeks from Friday, we should have a much clearer idea as to which immediate direction the movement toward unionizing college sports is headed.
A spokesperson from the National Labor Relations Board confirmed to the Associated Press Wednesday that Northwestern football players are scheduled to vote on forming a union April 25. Exactly a week ago today, the Chicago regional office of the NLRB ruled that Northwestern football players meet the standards under federal guidelines to be represented by a union.
The petition that triggered the ruling was was filed by the National College Players Association on behalf of former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter and the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA), and had the backing of the United Steelworkers union. The NLRB agreed with CAPA's argument that the football players are employees of the university.
As expected, Northwestern announced two days later that it would be appealing the ruling. The university has until April 9 to request a formal review, the Chicago Tribune reported. The paper went on to write that the vote "could be delayed if the NLRB in Washington accepts the request before April 25, but that's unlikely."
A total of 76 Northwestern football players are eligible to vote for or against a union. If a majority of the players vote for a union, CAPA would then have the legal right to collectively bargain with the university on the behalf of the players.
Such a development, however, would likely be years down the road even with an affirmative union vote as most expect the case to wind its way through the federal court system and ultimately wind up in the lap of the United States Supreme Court.
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Q: Nginx config to serve react app from sub-folder I have a create-react-app that I built, created npm run dist and copied the resulting dist files to /var/www/html/build/
Here is my nginx config:
server{
    listen 9095;
    server_name <hostname>;

    access_log     /var/log/nginx/nginx.pass.access.log;
    error_log      /var/log/nginx/nginx.pass.error.log;

    root /var/www/html/build/;

    location / {
        index  index.html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
}

With this, I can access http://hostname:9095.
What I actually need is to serve the same site with http://hostname:9095/pass (or /PASS) (and not /)
I have tried various re-write config but I can't seem to figure this out.. Help appreciated

A: The format of a rewrite expression is rewrite <regex> <replacement> [flag];. The simplest way to redirect /pass or /PASS to your /var/www/html/build/index.html page is as follows.
location ~* ^/pass$ {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.html break;
    root /var/www/html/build;
    index index.html;
}

The location ~* ^/pass directive is a case-insensitive regular expression match against the /pass URI. The ^ symbol ensures the regex matches only the /pass uri, and not something like /some/dir/pass, while the $ symbol ensures a url like /password is not matched as well.
Note, however, that this regex will match /pAsS, /PAss, and /pasS. In other words, it really is case-insensitive. If you wish to match only /pass or /PASS, you should modify the regex accordingly.
Better yet, you can completely circumvent regex URI matching by using an exact URI match.
location = /pass {
    ...
}

Using an exact match like this speeds up request processing because regular expressions do not need to be parsed.
To match /PASS, you could then simply define another exact location match block.
location = /PASS {
    ...
}

This then frees up your main location block for your primary server content.
location / {
    root /var/somewhere/else;
    index index.html;
}

Edit: After writing this, I came across the alias directive, which also seems promising. I haven't used it myself (I've always used rewrites for this kind of thing), but it's something else to explore as well.


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On behalf of Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O. posted in Car Accidents on Wednesday, December 18, 2013.
Driving under the influence is a major problem in the United States. Although it appears that the media has tried desperately to publicize this problem and warn drivers to avoid drinking and driving, thousands of people are killed each year by other drivers making this foolish mistake. Unfortunately, this could be the wretched cause of a car accident that killed a woman in Nebraska recently.
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US-backed Syrian Forces Cut Key Road Linking Raqqa, Deir Ezzor
March 6, 2017 turkeynewsgazette.com
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have taken control of the only major road linking Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State (IS), and Deir Ezzor province, which is partially controlled by the militants.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) cut off the route Monday.
SDF fighters relaunched their offensive to retake Raqqa Sunday after a one week break.Their strategy includes isolating the city from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, and to take control of more territories along the Euphrates river en route to Raqqa.
"In the past week, we had a chance to regroup our forces and bring them to a high level of readiness," the SDF said in a statement.
The anti-IS force seized at least seven villages in Deir Ezzor province Sunday after fierce clashes with IS fighters, according to a local commander who spoke to VOA on condition of anonymity.
"Our advances on IS in Deir Ezzor have been very rapid, and we expect to liberate larger areas this week," the commander added.
IS is retreating
The commander said IS fighters lack the ability to attack and face advancing SDF forces, and are retreating from the area.
SDF made the advances against Islamic State with the help of U.S. close-air support, and coordination between SDF and the U.S.-led coalition continues with the aim of isolating Raqqa, according to SDF.
While SDF claims its week-long halt of operations against IS was due to weather conditions, analysts believe the group was awaiting a "green light" from the U.S. government to move forward with the offensive.
"The SDF has been getting the bulk majority of American support," said Khorshid Alika, a Syrian researcher who closely follows the offensive. "This will only continue in the days ahead in the Raqqa campaign."
US support may increase
Reports from the region suggest the U.S. is likely to increase its military support for the Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters within the SDF, which could including artillery, arms supplies and other weaponry.
U.S. President Donald Trump recently received a plan regarding the Raqqa offensive after he had given the Defense Department 30 days to prepare it. The plan reportedly includes a significant increase of U.S. Special Operations Forces against the group, The Washington Post reported. The U.S. currently has 500 trainers deployed who advise local partners.
Turkey, a NATO ally, has repeatedly voiced opposition to a Syrian Kurdish participation in the Raqqa operation and has criticized the U.S. for providing military support to the Syrian Kurdish fighters in the SDF.
Ankara views the Kurdish YPG, the main group in the SDF, as a terrorist organization and fears any Kurdish advances in northern Syria would empower the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that has been waging a decades-long insurgency.
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford assured his Turkish counterpart General Hulusi Akar last month at NATO's Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey that the United States is considerate of Turkey's concerns and that it chooses Kurdish fighters with care when lending support to rebels fighting Islamic State.
But Turkey continues to claim the U.S. is actively supporting YPG, which Turkey views as an ally of the outlawed PKK. Both the United States and Turkey view the PKK as a terrorist organization.
Analysts suggest, however, that Turkey's objection to a Kurdish participation in the Raqqa offensive would soften after recent Turkish military gains in parts of northern Syria.
"Turkey's primary goal was to prevent the YPG from forming a contiguous Kurdish entity in the Syria-Turkey border region," researcher Alika said. "Now that its goal has been achieved, I don't think Turkey is concerned with having the Kurds lead the operation to liberate Raqqa."
Last week, Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies moved closer to the Kurdish-held town of Manbij in northern Syria after they pushed out IS from the nearby town of al-Bab.
Source: Voice of America
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Local Climate Bonds a cost-effective way to raise billions for councils' green plans, says new campaign
The Green Finance Institute and Abundance Investment, supported by UK100, Local Partnerships and Innovate UK, today launch a national campaign to help local authorities issue a type of municipal finance investment – Local Climate Bonds. The campaign will target all 404 local authorities in the UK, of which over 70% have declared a climate emergency, helping them bring to market this retail investment product – a cost-effective way for them to fund hundreds of green local projects in the run-up to and beyond the critically important COP26 summit in November.
The Green Finance Institute and Abundance's campaign will highlight the benefits of Local Climate Bonds, build a community of knowledge sharing, and provide access to green finance and municipal investment experts.
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The Government confirmed on 1 July the issuance of the UK's first green bond in September 2021, cementing its endorsement of this type of finance for a green recovery.
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute, says, "We need to mobilise significant investment to meet our decarbonisation objectives; Local Climate Bonds are an important part of this target and of the growth of green finance in the UK. This campaign will support councils to access cost-effective financing to deliver place-based transition projects for inclusive, resilient, net zero communities, and provide local residents with an attractive opportunity to invest in the long-term future of their communities."
Karl Harder, co-founder and Managing Director, Abundance Investment, said: "We are very pleased that so many councils are recognising the strong connection between their citizens and financing the infrastructure we need to get to a net zero future. Warrington and West Berkshire are
leading the way in empowering local action on climate change – we hope that many more will follow their great example."
Polly Billington, Chief Executive, UK100, says, "Local authorities are pioneering new ways of raising funding for the green projects they identify, adopting financing tools that contribute to unlocking their potential to lead on the place-based transition to Net Zero."
Sean Hanson, Chief Executive, Local Partnerships, says "Local Climate Bonds will give citizens a direct link to investing in our future and responding to the climate crisis, locally and in true partnership. There are so many local projects that will benefit and Local Partnerships is fully supportive of the initiative taken by the Green Finance Institute and Abundance."
Amy Flynn, Sustainable Innovation Fund, Innovate UK, says, "Providing access to community-based green initiatives comes at a critical time in the global sustainability agenda. Seeing the Green Finance Institute and Abundance Investment launch this campaign will bring greater awareness to the effects of climate change and environmental sustainability and how innovation can help address them."
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, said: "It is a critical time for councils to harness the expertise and the local knowledge they have to help their residents meet the net zero carbon challenge, sharing best practice and championing progress. The Local Climate Bonds' way of funding decarbonisation projects all over the UK will also support thousands of good green jobs, including in retrofitting our homes, moving away from fossil fuel transport and improving natural biodiversity. The newly-formed Greater Manchester Retrofitting Taskforce will be considering innovative financing options such as these."
Local Climate Bonds have so far been piloted by West Berkshire and Warrington councils in 2019 and 2020, raising £2 million in total used to fund projects including solar panels, habitat restoration, tree planting and LED lighting.
Ross Mackinnon, West Berkshire Council's Executive Member for Finance and Economic Development said,
"The delivery of the bond has been a real success for us and has enabled the Council to not only achieve an engaging way of utilising a cheaper form of borrowing for our net zero ambitions, but we've also leveraged in further donations to our successful wildflower verges projects to enhance biodiversity in the local area."
More information can be found from 13 July at www.greenfinanceinstitute.co.uk/LCBs.
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Q: Python scikit learn MLPClassifier "hidden_layer_sizes" I am lost in the scikit learn 0.18 user manual (http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/generated/sklearn.neural_network.MLPClassifier.html#sklearn.neural_network.MLPClassifier):
   hidden_layer_sizes : tuple, length = n_layers - 2, default (100,)
   The ith element represents the number of neurons in the ith hidden layer.

If I am looking for only 1 hidden layer and 7 hidden units in my model, should I put like this?  Thanks!
    hidden_layer_sizes=(7, 1)

A: hidden_layer_sizes=(7,) if you want only 1 hidden layer with 7 hidden units.
length = n_layers - 2 is because you have 1 input layer and 1 output layer.

A: In the docs:

hidden_layer_sizes : tuple, length = n_layers - 2, default (100,)

means :
hidden_layer_sizes is a tuple of size (n_layers -2)
n_layers means no of layers we want as per architecture.
Value 2 is subtracted from n_layers because two layers (input & output ) are not part of hidden layers, so not belong to the count.
default(100,) means if no value is provided for hidden_layer_sizes then default architecture will have one input layer, one hidden layer with 100 units and one output layer.
From the docs again:

The ith element represents the number of neurons in the ith hidden layer.

means each entry in tuple belongs to corresponding hidden layer.
Example :

*

*For architecture 56:25:11:7:5:3:1 with input 56 and 1 output
hidden layers will be (25:11:7:5:3). So tuple hidden_layer_sizes = (25,11,7,5,3,)

*For architecture 3:45:2:11:2 with input 3 and 2 output
hidden layers will be (45:2:11). So tuple hidden_layer_sizes = (45,2,11,)


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"Moving to Tallahassee, I was concerned that there was only one Catholic School. However, I cannot express how pleased I am with Trinity. My kids felt at home right away. The teachers are caring, yet set high expectations. I truly appreciate the amazing communication and parent involvement. I also love how religion is not just a class but is infused in the entire curriculum and daily activities."
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Aiton é uma comuna romena localizada no distrito de Cluj, na região histórica da Transilvânia. A comuna possui uma área de 40.94 km² e sua população era de 1244 habitantes segundo o censo de 2007.

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Comunas de Cluj (distrito)
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Section 1. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom from:
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons
El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. Municipal and legislative elections held in 2015 were generally free and fair, although results were delayed due to slow transmission, tabulation, and vote count dissemination. Free and fair presidential elections took place in 2014.
Civilian authorities failed at times to maintain effective control over security forces.
The most significant human rights issues included alleged unlawful killings of suspected gang members and others by security forces; forced disappearances by military personnel, which the government prosecuted; torture by security forces; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; lack of government respect for judicial impartiality and independence; widespread government corruption; gang-member violence against women and girls as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals; and children engaged in the worst forms of child labor.
Impunity persisted despite government steps to dismiss and prosecute some officials in the security forces, the executive branch, and the justice system who committed abuses.
The law prohibits such practices, but there were multiple reports of violations. The PDDH received 29 complaints of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment by the PNC, the armed forces, and other public officials. The PNC reported that, as of August, some 20 complaints had been filed against police officials for torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. As of October the Ministry of Public Security and Justice's Office of the Inspector General reported 29 complaints against police officers for alleged cruel treatment.
NGOs reported that public officials, including police, engaged in violence and discrimination against sexual minorities. Persons from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community stated that the agencies in charge of processing identification documents, the PNC, and the Attorney General's Office harassed transgender and gay individuals when they applied for identification cards or reported cases of violence against LGBTI persons. The LGBTI community reported authorities harassed LGBTI persons by conducting strip searches and questioning their gender in a degrading manner. The government responded to these claims primarily through a PDDH report on hate crimes against the LGBTI community that publicized cases of violence and discrimination against sexual minorities and specifically mentioned three killings of transgender women in February, although their murders were tied to gang activity.
Prison and detention center conditions remained harsh and life threatening due to gross overcrowding, unhygienic conditions, and gang activities.
Physical Conditions: Overcrowding remained a serious threat to prisoners' health and lives. As of June 30, the think tank Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES) reported 38,386 inmates were being held in facilities designed for 11,478 inmates. This is an increase in capacity from 9,732 inmates in 2016.
As of September 21, the prison population included 25,849 convicted inmates and 12,851 inmates in pretrial detention. Convicted inmates and pretrial detainees were sometimes held in the same prisons and cells. The Salvadoran Institute for Child Development (ISNA) also reported that, as of July, there were 1,155 convicted juveniles incarcerated in its facilities, 211 of whom were awaiting trial. Among those in ISNA facilities, 320 were incarcerated on homicide charges, 254 on extortion charges, 156 on drug-related charges, and 143 were incarcerated for belonging to a criminal association or gang. The ISNA reported that 4 percent of minors spent more than 72 hours in initial detention. As of July the ISNA reported that two adolescents had been killed in juvenile detention facilities, allegedly by fellow gang members.
In many facilities, provisions for sanitation, potable water, ventilation, temperature control, medical care, and lighting were inadequate. On July 3, the PDDH published a report on the so-called extraordinary measures implemented in prisons since April 2016, some of which allegedly led to abuse of the right to life and the right to health of inmates. The extraordinary measures affected 14,213 inmates housed in seven prisons: Izalco, Izalcon III, Quezaltepeque, Chalatenango, Ciudad Barrios, Gotera, and Zacatecoluca penitentiaries. These measures included preventing communication between inmate gang leaders and members outside of prison, suspending all private communication and contact with inmates' families, limiting inmates' access to lawyers, and detaining and isolating known gang leaders in higher security prisons. Inmates were also potentially restricted to their overcrowded prison cells for most hours of the day, allowing diseases to spread more easily. The PDDH report highlighted that tuberculosis cases increased by 400 percent in the prisons system after the implementation of the extraordinary measures. The Prisons Directorate reported that, as of August, there were 892 prisoners infected with tuberculosis, and 19 had died of the disease. The PDDH mediated 2,000 cases related to prison conditions and noted that in 2016 a total of 47 inmates died, some of them due to unspecified reasons.
On August 22, Vice Minister of Health Julio Robles Ticas announced the creation of an interinstitutional committee for combating infectious and contagious diseases inside prisons and police detention cells. This followed an August 18 statement by Security Minister Mauricio Ramirez Landaverde that there were tuberculosis outbreaks at the Izalco, La Esperanza (known as Mariona), Sonsonate, and San Vicente prisons, mostly due to overcrowding. In September the PNC reported that due to prison overcrowding, there were 5,527 detainees in small detention centers at police stations, which had a combined capacity of 2,102 persons. In pretrial detention, there was no separation of sick and healthy detainees. In May 2016 the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the systematic violation of basic human rights by prison overcrowding, citing the government for violating prisoners' right to health, and ordered periodic visits by the Ministry of Health. The court ordered prison authorities to build new prisons and to remodel others to shelter inmates humanely and the judicial system to review the inmate rosters with the aim of reducing the number of prisoners.
Gang presence in prisons remained high. As of September 21, detention center facilities held 17,614 inmates who were current or former gang members, approximately 46 percent of the total prison population. Despite the extraordinary measures, prisoners conducted criminal activities from their cells, at times with the complicity of prison guards and officials. Smuggling of weapons, drugs, and other contraband such as cell phones and cell phone SIM cards was a major problem in the prisons.
On May 29, Prisons Director Rodil Hernandez was arrested for the alleged mismanagement of two million dollars during the 2012-13 gang truce. Hernandez allegedly used funds from prison commissary shops to fund bonuses, overtime, and vacations; give loans to prison employees; and pay the salary of gang-truce mediator Raul Mijango, which was supposed to come from the Ministry of Defense. On August 29, Hernandez, among others, was acquitted on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove individual responsibility for the alleged crimes. On October 5, the attorney general appealed.
As of September 21, prison authorities removed 11 guards from duty for carrying illegal objects. The Prisons Directorate reported that no data was collected on the exact number of guards sanctioned over the year for misconduct or complaints regarding human rights violations. As of August, the PDDH had received three complaints of human rights violations by prison personnel.
There was no information available regarding abuse of persons with disabilities in prisons, although the government's National Council for Comprehensive Attention to Persons with Disabilities (CONAIPD) previously reported isolated incidents, including sexual abuse.
Administration: The PDDH has authority to investigate credible allegations of inhuman conditions. The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court has authority over the protection of constitutional rights. Under the extraordinary measures implemented in April 2016 and renewed in February until April 2018, inmates in the affected prisons were under restrictive conditions and could not receive visitors, including religious observance visitors such as priests.
Independent Monitoring: The government permitted visits by independent human rights observers, NGOs, and the media, except to those prisons covered by the extraordinary measures. The PDDH continued to monitor all prisons. Church groups, the Institute for Human Rights at the University of Central America, LGBTI activists, and other groups visited prisons during the year. After the implementation of the extraordinary measures, which restricted monitoring of the prisons subject to the measures, the International Committee for the Red Cross suspended all prison visits until visitation was restored in the prisons subject to the extraordinary measures.
Improvements: In February prison Izalco II opened with the aim of relieving overcrowding in the prisons covered under the extraordinary measures. As of August a total of 2,017 inmates were housed in the new facility after being transferred from other prisons. On October 4, a new detention facility in Zacatecoluca was inaugurated with a capacity of 1,008 minimum-security general population inmates. On November 27, the new La Esperanza Detention Center opened in Ayutuxtepeque, in the department of San Salvador, housing 275 inmates with short prison terms transferred from other prisons. According to the Prisons Directorate, the facility was built to house 3,000 minimum security prisoners.
The constitution provides for freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation. The government generally respected these rights, although in many areas the government could not provide freedom of movement due to criminal gang activity.
The government cooperated with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, refugees, returning refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other persons of concern. The government, however, could not facilitate services in many of the gang-controlled neighborhoods most in need.
In-country Movement: The major gangs controlled their own territory. Gang members did not allow persons living in another gang's controlled area to enter their territory, even when travelling via public transportation. Gangs forced persons to present identification cards (containing their addresses) to determine their residence. If gang members discovered that a person lived in a rival gang's territory, that person risked being killed, beaten, or not allowed to enter the territory. Bus companies paid extortion fees to operate within gang territories, often paying numerous fees for the different areas in which they operated. The extortion costs were passed on to paying customers.
INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS)
There were no official government figures on IDPs. A December 2016 IUDOP poll reported that 5 percent of citizens had changed their place of residence due to crime, with 66 percent changing their place of residence once, 31 percent from two to four times, and 3.2 percent five or more times. According to the poll, 40.3 percent stated they might migrate to another country in the following year. The percentage of persons expressing a desire to migrate abroad was the highest in 10 years. The poll also reported that 17.2 percent of individuals had a family member forced to migrate to another country due to threats or to some violent event in 2016. UNHCR estimated there were 280,000 internally displaced persons. UNHCR reported the causes of internal displacement included abuse, extortion, discrimination, and threats.
The NGO International Rescue Committee estimated that the number of IDPs totaled approximately 324,000, or 5.2 percent of the country's population. On April 4, however, a UNHCR representative reported that due to violence and insecurity, statistics for IDPs may not be reliable.
PROTECTION OF REFUGEES
Access to Asylum: The law provides for the granting of asylum or refugee status, including an established system for providing protection to refugees. As of August 25, the government had not granted refugee status to anyone. As of August, four petitions had been submitted, with one resulting in denial and three still under consideration.
Rape and Domestic Violence: The law criminalizes rape of men or women, and the criminal code's definition of rape may apply to spousal rape, at the judge's discretion. The law requires the Attorney General's Office to prosecute rape cases whether or not the victim presses charges, and the law does not permit the victim to withdraw the criminal charge. The penalty for rape is generally imprisonment for six to 10 years. Laws against rape were not effectively enforced.
The law prohibits domestic violence and generally provides for sentences ranging from one to three years in prison, although some forms of domestic violence carry higher penalties. The law also permits restraining orders against offenders. Laws against domestic violence remained poorly enforced, and violence against women, including domestic violence, remained a widespread and serious problem.
As of October the Office of the Inspector General reported five cases of alleged rape by police officers and six cases of sexual assault.
Sexual Harassment: The law prohibits sexual harassment and provides imprisonment of up to five years if the victim is an adult and up to eight years if the victim is a minor. Courts may impose fines in addition to a prison term in cases where the perpetrator maintains a position of trust or authority over the victim. The law also mandates that employers take measures against sexual harassment, violence against women, and other workplace harassment. The law requires employers to create and implement preventive programs to address violence against women, sexual abuse, and other psychosocial risks. The government, however, did not enforce sexual harassment laws effectively.
Coercion in Population Control: There were no reports of coerced abortion, involuntary sterilization, or other coercive population control methods. Estimates on maternal mortality and contraceptive prevalence are available at: www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2015/en/ .
Discrimination: The constitution grants women and men the same legal rights, but women did not enjoy equal treatment. The law establishes sentences of one to three years in prison for public officials who deny a person's civil rights based on gender and six months to two years for employers who discriminate against women in the workplace, but employees generally did not report such violations due to fear of employer reprisals.
While the law prohibits discrimination based on gender, women suffered from cultural, economic, and societal discrimination. The law requires equal pay for equal work, but according to the 2016 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, the average wage paid to women for comparable work was 54 percent, down from 60 percent in 2015, of the compensation paid to men.
Birth Registration: Children derive citizenship by birth within the country and from their parents. The law requires parents to register a child within 15 days of birth or pay a $2.85 fine. Failure to register resulted in denial of school enrollment.
Education: Education is free, universal, compulsory through the ninth grade, and nominally free through high school. Rural areas, however, frequently did not provide required education to all eligible students due to a lack of resources and because rural parents often withdrew their children from school by the sixth grade, requiring them to work.
Child Abuse: Child abuse remained a serious and widespread problem. For additional information, see Appendix C.
Early and Forced Marriage: The legal minimum age for marriage is 18. On August 17, legislators approved a ban on child marriage to prevent child abusers from using legal technicalities to avoid imprisonment.
Sexual Exploitation of Children: Child sex trafficking is prohibited by law. On March 29, the Legislative Assembly approved a reform to the penal code to increase prison sentences for convicted traffickers from four to eight years, to six to 10 years.
The minimum age for consensual sex is 18. The law classifies statutory rape as sexual relations with anyone under the age of 18 and includes penalties of four to 13 years' imprisonment for violations.
The law prohibits paying anyone under the age of 18 for sexual services. The law prohibits participating in, facilitating, or purchasing materials containing child pornography and provides for prison sentences of up to 16 years for violations. Despite these provisions, sexual exploitation of children remained a problem.
International Child Abductions: The country is a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. See the Department of State's Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction at travel.state.gov/content/childabduction/en/legal/compliance.html.
The Jewish community totaled approximately 150 persons. There were no known reports of anti-Semitic acts.
See the Department of State's Trafficking in Persons Report at www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/.
The law prohibits discrimination against persons with physical, sensory, intellectual, and mental disabilities. The National Council for Comprehensive Attention to Persons with Disability (CONAIPD), composed of representatives from multiple government entities, is the governmental agency responsible for protecting disability rights, but lacks enforcement power. According to CONAIPD, the government did not allocate sufficient resources to enforce prohibitions against discrimination effectively, particularly in education, employment, and transportation. The government did not effectively enforce legal requirements for access to buildings, information, and communications for persons with disabilities. Few access ramps or provisions for the mobility of persons with disabilities existed.
According to CONAIPD, there is no mechanism to verify compliance with the law requiring businesses and nongovernment agencies to hire one person with disabilities for every 25 hires. CONAIPD reported employers frequently fired persons who acquired disabilities and would not consider persons with disabilities for work for which they qualified. Further, some academic institutions would not accept children with disabilities due to a lack of facilities and resources. No formal system existed for filing a discrimination complaint involving a disability with the government. The Ministry of Labor's General Directorate for Labor Inspection imposed 403 fines on businesses between 2014 and 2017 for violations of the labor law that requires the hiring of persons with disabilities.
According to the 2007 census, the most recent for which this data was available, 0.4 percent of citizens identified as indigenous. A 2014 constitutional amendment recognizes the rights of indigenous people, but no laws provide indigenous people rights to share in revenue from exploitation of natural resources on historically indigenous lands. The government did not demarcate any lands as belonging to indigenous communities. Because few possessed title to land, opportunities for bank loans and other forms of credit remained extremely limited.
The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. On November 13, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced new guidelines to protect LGBTI persons from discrimination at election polls. Under the guidelines, individuals cannot be denied the right to vote because the photo on their identification card does not match their physical appearance or gender expression.
On August 30, the attorney general filed charges against eight Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members for the aggravated homicides of three transgender persons. The in-depth police investigation by a specialized unit produced credible evidence that the victims had been involved in gang-related extortion activities. On February 18, two of the victims arrived at a party in San Luis Talpa, La Paz Department, when perpetrators fired shots from a vehicle. Authorities reported that the gangs killed a third transgender victim on February 21 in Cuyultitan, in La Paz, in retaliation for her participation in the killings of the first two victims. In March the PNC assigned its High Visibility Crimes Unit to investigate the homicides of the three transgender women, and the Secretary for Social Inclusion met with activists to hear their concerns about LGBTI hate crimes. While the crimes themselves were later determined to be gang related, the government and the PDDH issued statements against hate crimes in response to concerns expressed immediately after the crimes by the LGBTI community.
A March 21 hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights focused on anti-LGBTI violence and hate crimes. One NGO told commissioners that at least 600 persons had experienced hate crimes based on their sexual orientation or gender identity since 2004. As of August 31, the PDDH had received six complaints for crimes against LGBTI persons.
NGOs reported that public officials, including police, engaged in violence and discrimination against LGBTI persons. Members of the LGBTI community stated that PNC and Attorney General's Office personnel ridiculed them when they applied for identification cards or reported cases of violence against LGBTI persons. The NGO Association for Communication and Training of Transgender Women with HIV in El Salvador (COMCAVIS Trans) reported that, as of September, a total of 28 LGBTI persons were attacked or killed because of their sexual orientation.
Although the law prohibits discrimination on the basis of HIV/AIDS status, Entre Amigos, an LGBTI nongovernmental organization, reported that discrimination due to HIV was widespread. As of August 31, the PDDH reported one case of discrimination against persons with HIV or AIDS. The Ministry of Labor reported one case of discrimination against an HIV-positive employee based on the illness in 2016.
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a. Freedom of Speech and Press
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
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Printed Books & Bindings - Morgan Library & Museum
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Diversity and quality have been hallmarks of this collection, with works spanning Western book production from the earliest printed ephemera to important first editions from the twentieth century. The Morgan Library & Museum's holdings encompass a la... more
Diversity and quality have been hallmarks of this collection, with works spanning Western book production from the earliest printed ephemera to important first editions from the twentieth century. The Morgan Library & Museum's holdings encompass a large number of high points in the history of printing, often exemplified by a lone surviving copy or a copy that is perfect in every way. Areas of exceptional strength include incunables, early children's books, fine bindings, and illustrated books. The collection's strong base derives from the major acquisitions of Pierpont Morgan, who sought to establish in the United States a library worthy of the great European collections. It is rich in special and unique copies, first editions of classical authors, and works of notable printers, such as Jenson and Caxton. Among the highlights are three Gutenberg Bibles, a strong collection of works by Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, John Ruskin, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and William Morris, and classic early children's books. The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature, a major 1998 gift, strengthens the Morgan's twentieth-century holdings with authors such as Ted Hughes... more
Diversity and quality have been hallmarks of this collection, with works spanning Western book production from the earliest printed ephemera to important first editions from the twentieth century. The Morgan Library & Museum's holdings encompass a large number of high points in the history of printing, often exemplified by a lone surviving copy or a copy that is perfect in every way. Areas of exceptional strength include incunables, early children's books, fine bindings, and illustrated books.
The collection's strong base derives from the major acquisitions of Pierpont Morgan, who sought to establish in the United States a library worthy of the great European collections. It is rich in special and unique copies, first editions of classical authors, and works of notable printers, such as Jenson and Caxton. Among the highlights are three Gutenberg Bibles, a strong collection of works by Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, John Ruskin, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and William Morris, and classic early children's books. The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature, a major 1998 gift, strengthens the Morgan's twentieth-century holdings with authors such as Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Nabokov, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams.
There are many beautiful and important bindings in the Morgan, but the bindings collection comprises about a thousand volumes acquired primarily to document the development of bookbinding. It is among the finest collections of bindings in this hemisphere, equally strong in quantity and quality. Areas of particular distinction are English, French, and Italian bindings of the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries.
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package com.bitdubai.fermat_dap_api.layer.dap_identity.asset_user.interfaces;

import com.bitdubai.fermat_dap_api.layer.dap_identity.asset_user.exceptions.CantSingMessageException;

/**
 * Created by Nerio on 07/09/15.
 */
public interface IdentityAssetUser {
    /**
     * Get the alias of the represented translator identity
     *
     * @return String Alias
     */
    public String getAlias();

    /**
     * Get the public key of the represented developer
     *
     * @return string pulic key
     */
    public String getPublicKey();

    /**
     * Sign a message with translator private key
     *
     * @param mensage to sign
     * @return string signed message
     * @throws CantSingMessageException
     */
    public String createMessageSignature(String mensage) throws CantSingMessageException;
}

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