After MPs on Friday rejected May's agreement for the third time by 344 votes to 286, the Prime Minister said that the UK would need "an alternative way forward" to carry on with the Brexit process.
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However, she said any further delay to Brexit was "almost certain" to involve staging elections to the European Parliament slated to be held from May 23 to 26.
Following Friday's votes, opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on May to change her deal or resign immediately, while Northern Ireland's DUP, which has propped up May's minority government, also continues to oppose the agreement.
Responding to the development, the European Commission has said that the EU was now "fully prepared" for a no-deal Brexit.


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Dave asked me about this. I appreciate the article requests because your desire for them gets me more excited. So, lets see what the MC has to say. The MC is one's public face. It is one's face in one's career and one's face to society One's face in one's daily life may be quite different. This would be shown by the Ascendent. The Sun's Aspects to the MC The Sun conjunct the MC is the sign of a superstar. It is rare but if you have it, you are destined to greatness.A conjunction is always the most powerful aspect, so keep that in mind. If one thinks of a fire, the conjunction is sitting right next to the fire. You feel the heat. You feel the warmth. It is very up close and personal. Hence, when looking at aspects, in general, scope out the conjunctions first. Degrees always matter and matter a great deal. The closer the degree, the more powerful the conjunction. Lets look at the other aspects. Sun Trine or Sextile the MC The Trine is an effortless gift. One is graced by the gods. The sextile is a buried trine. It is a gift but must have effort to unearth. Both of these aspects grace the native with the self confidence to succeed in his career and to have an honorable place in society. Sun Square or Oppose the MC The square is a locked position, in my opinion. It cannot be changed but it can be worked around. Hence, the Sun square the MC would make for a difficult time putting forth one's ego in a career. One may fight authority. One may not get along with bosses. One may leave job after job. The opposition is not locked in like the square. It is a swinging back and forth between opposite sides. Hence, this native may be confident, at times, and insecure and unsure at others. Aspects To the MC ballet girlDave asked me about this. I appreciate the article requests because your desire for them gets me more excited. So, lets see what the MC has to say. The MC is one's public face. It is one's face in one's career and one's face to society One's face in one's daily life may be quite different. This would be shown by the Ascendent. The Sun's Aspects to the MC The Sun conjunct the MC is the sign of a superstar. It is rare but if you have it, you are destined to greatness.A conjunction is always the most powerful aspect, so keep that in mind. If one thinks of a fire, the conjunction is sitting right next to the fire. You feel the heat. You feel the warmth. It is very up close and personal. Hence, when looking at aspects, in general, scope out the conjunctions first. Degrees always matter and matter a great deal. The closer the degree, the more powerful the conjunction. Lets look at the other aspects. Sun Trine or Sextile the MC The Trine is an effortless gift. One is graced by the gods. The sextile is a buried trine. It is a gift but must have effort to unearth. Both of these aspects grace the native with the self confidence to succeed in his career and to have an honorable place in society. Sun Square or Oppose the MC The square is a locked position, in my opinion. It cannot be changed but it can be worked around. Hence, the Sun square the MC would make for a difficult time putting forth one's ego in a career. One may fight authority. One may not get along with bosses. One may leave job after job. The opposition is not locked in like the square. It is a swinging back and forth between opposite sides. Hence, this native may be confident, at times, and insecure and unsure at others. Moon Aspects Moon conjunct the MC will show his heart to the world. He will be an open book in the area of career and public image. He may not be so in his daily life. This would be the domain of Moon conjunct the ASC. Moon trine or Sextile the MC This aspect allows the native to use his heart in his career. He will be gifted in this way. I don't know if Mr. Rogers had this but he could have. This native may write or speak from his heart. At any rate, one would see his heart. Moon Square or Oppose the MC Moon square the MC may not be able to show his heart to the world. He may be the cold, grouch in his career. He may be very different in his daily life but in his career, he may appear heartless. I think of Donald Trump, whom I love, by the way, but he seems like he is all head and no heart when it comes to work. With his family, he seems loving. This would be a good example of Moon square the MC. Moon oppose the MC This native may show his heart and then pull back and be cold. He may not ever be able to find middle ground balance. This is typical of any opposition. Mercury 's Aspects Mercury conjunct the MC will show his intellect and/or communication abilities to the world. He may be a speaker, actor or a writer. He will be a natural in the realm of communication Mercury Trine or Sextile the MC This native could use his mind in an effortless way to reach his goals. He would have good communication skills which he could use in his career. Mercury Square or Oppose the MC This person may feel that he cannot communicate well and this may be a stumbling block to his career. Aspects To the MC ballet girlDave asked me about this. I appreciate the article requests because your desire for them gets me more excited. So, lets see what the MC has to say. The MC is one's public face. It is one's face in one's career and one's face to society One's face in one's daily life may be quite different. This would be shown by the Ascendent. The Sun's Aspects to the MC The Sun conjunct the MC is the sign of a superstar. It is rare but if you have it, you are destined to greatness.A conjunction is always the most powerful aspect, so keep that in mind. If one thinks of a fire, the conjunction is sitting right next to the fire. You feel the heat. You feel the warmth. It is very up close and personal. Hence, when looking at aspects, in general, scope out the conjunctions first. Degrees always matter and matter a great deal. The closer the degree, the more powerful the conjunction. Lets look at the other aspects. Sun Trine or Sextile the MC The Trine is an effortless gift. One is graced by the gods. The sextile is a buried trine. It is a gift but must have effort to unearth. Both of these aspects grace the native with the self confidence to succeed in his career and to have an honorable place in society. Sun Square or Oppose the MC The square is a locked position, in my opinion. It cannot be changed but it can be worked around. Hence, the Sun square the MC would make for a difficult time putting forth one's ego in a career. One may fight authority. One may not get along with bosses. One may leave job after job. The opposition is not locked in like the square. It is a swinging back and forth between opposite sides. Hence, this native may be confident, at times, and insecure and unsure at others. Moon Aspects Moon conjunct the MC will show his heart to the world. He will be an open book in the area of career and public image. He may not be so in his daily life. This would be the domain of Moon conjunct the ASC. Moon trine or Sextile the MC This aspect allows the native to use his heart in his career. He will be gifted in this way. I don't know if Mr. Rogers had this but he could have. This native may write or speak from his heart. At any rate, one would see his heart. Moon Square or Oppose the MC Moon square the MC may not be able to show his heart to the world. He may be the cold, grouch in his career. He may be very different in his daily life but in his career, he may appear heartless. I think of Donald Trump, whom I love, by the way, but he seems like he is all head and no heart when it comes to work. With his family, he seems loving. This would be a good example of Moon square the MC. Moon oppose the MC This native may show his heart and then pull back and be cold. He may not ever be able to find middle ground balance. This is typical of any opposition. Mercury 's Aspects Mercury conjunct the MC will show his intellect and/or communication abilities to the world. He may be a speaker, actor or a writer. He will be a natural in the realm of communication Mercury Trine or Sextile the MC This native could use his mind in an effortless way to reach his goals. He would have good communication skills which he could use in his career. Mercury Square or Oppose the MC This person may feel that he cannot communicate well and this may be a stumbling block to his career. Venus Aspects Venus conjunct the MC may be beautiful and/or have a career in beauty such as a model or a clothes designer. Venus trine the MC This native could use his sense of beauty to help him in his career. He may be an art critic or a music critic. He could use his sensitivity to beauty in his career, in a variety of ways from hair stylist to photographer. Venus Square or Oppose the MC This native may feel blocked in applying his sense of aesthetics to his career. He may not have an eye for beauty and this may hold him back in his chosen career. He may listen to the music, but not feel the beat, so to speak. Mars Aspects Mars conjunct the MC is a super goal oriented person. When one looks at him, one would see drive, drive, drive. Mars Trine or Sextile the MC This native can set a career goal and go after it, as easy as pie( or almost) Mars Square or Oppose the MC This native may feel blocked in his goals. He may feel as if he just cannot figure out how to get from Point A to Point B. He may feel as if his goals are always blocked or there is always an inordinate struggle. Saturn Aspects Saturn Conj the MC is an unfortunate position. The native feels a sense of insecurity, as if he can never measure up. He tries to do well and he may do well, but inside he drives himself and is insecure in the process. Aspects To the MC ballet girlDave asked me about this. I appreciate the article requests because your desire for them gets me more excited. So, lets see what the MC has to say. The MC is one's public face. It is one's face in one's career and one's face to society One's face in one's daily life may be quite different. This would be shown by the Ascendent. The Sun's Aspects to the MC The Sun conjunct the MC is the sign of a superstar. It is rare but if you have it, you are destined to greatness.A conjunction is always the most powerful aspect, so keep that in mind. If one thinks of a fire, the conjunction is sitting right next to the fire. You feel the heat. You feel the warmth. It is very up close and personal. Hence, when looking at aspects, in general, scope out the conjunctions first. Degrees always matter and matter a great deal. The closer the degree, the more powerful the conjunction. Lets look at the other aspects. Sun Trine or Sextile the MC The Trine is an effortless gift. One is graced by the gods. The sextile is a buried trine. It is a gift but must have effort to unearth. Both of these aspects grace the native with the self confidence to succeed in his career and to have an honorable place in society. Sun Square or Oppose the MC The square is a locked position, in my opinion. It cannot be changed but it can be worked around. Hence, the Sun square the MC would make for a difficult time putting forth one's ego in a career. One may fight authority. One may not get along with bosses. One may leave job after job. The opposition is not locked in like the square. It is a swinging back and forth between opposite sides. Hence, this native may be confident, at times, and insecure and unsure at others. Moon Aspects Moon conjunct the MC will show his heart to the world. He will be an open book in the area of career and public image. He may not be so in his daily life. This would be the domain of Moon conjunct the ASC. Moon trine or Sextile the MC This aspect allows the native to use his heart in his career. He will be gifted in this way. I don't know if Mr. Rogers had this but he could have. This native may write or speak from his heart. At any rate, one would see his heart. Moon Square or Oppose the MC Moon square the MC may not be able to show his heart to the world. He may be the cold, grouch in his career. He may be very different in his daily life but in his career, he may appear heartless. I think of Donald Trump, whom I love, by the way, but he seems like he is all head and no heart when it comes to work. With his family, he seems loving. This would be a good example of Moon square the MC. Moon oppose the MC This native may show his heart and then pull back and be cold. He may not ever be able to find middle ground balance. This is typical of any opposition. Mercury 's Aspects Mercury conjunct the MC will show his intellect and/or communication abilities to the world. He may be a speaker, actor or a writer. He will be a natural in the realm of communication Mercury Trine or Sextile the MC This native could use his mind in an effortless way to reach his goals. He would have good communication skills which he could use in his career. Mercury Square or Oppose the MC This person may feel that he cannot communicate well and this may be a stumbling block to his career. Venus Aspects Venus conjunct the MC may be beautiful and/or have a career in beauty such as a model or a clothes designer. Venus trine the MC This native could use his sense of beauty to help him in his career. He may be an art critic or a music critic. He could use his sensitivity to beauty in his career, in a variety of ways from hair stylist to photographer. Venus Square or Oppose the MC This native may feel blocked in applying his sense of aesthetics to his career. He may not have an eye for beauty and this may hold him back in his chosen career. He may listen to the music, but not feel the beat, so to speak. Mars Aspects Mars conjunct the MC is a super goal oriented person. When one looks at him, one would see drive, drive, drive. Mars Trine or Sextile the MC This native can set a career goal and go after it, as easy as pie( or almost) Mars Square or Oppose the MC This native may feel blocked in his goals. He may feel as if he just cannot figure out how to get from Point A to Point B. He may feel as if his goals are always blocked or there is always an inordinate struggle. Saturn Aspects Saturn Conj the MC is an unfortunate position. The native feels a sense of insecurity, as if he can never measure up. He tries to do well and he may do well, but inside he drives himself and is insecure in the process. Saturn Trine or Sextile the MC The Saturn trine is quite different than the Saturn conjunction to the MC. With the trine, the native can discipline himself to reach his goals. He can climb the mountain, slow and steady. In time, he will get to the top and look back with pride at how far he has come. This native will mature as he ages and as he experiences life. Saturn Square or Oppose the MC This native doubts his abilities. He may be the proverbial Pigpen who has a cloud of gloom around him. He may doubt he will every achieve his goals. He may feel that one stumbling block after another is thrown in his path. Jupiter Aspects Jupiter conjunct the MC gives wonderful luck in career. It, also, confers an optimism and joy that makes the native well liked. Hence, he would rise his his chosen career. Jupiter Trine or Sextile the MC The native uses his wonderful personality and inner light to help him in his career. He will be a natural people person and naturally popular Jupiter Square or Oppose the MC The native may have bad timing. He may apply for the job the day after it is filled. He may give too much or give too little but he seems to not be able to find the balance. Neptune Aspects Neptune conjunct the MC may be a great artist or musician. He may be a spiritual leader. However, he may be lost in his own dreams and do little, as well. Neptune trine the MC The Neptune trine is quite different than the Neptune conjunction. The trine offers the best use of Neptune's gifts without the downside. The trine allows creativity to flow. The native may have a wonderful imagination and be a creative genius. He could have a career in the arts, writing, interior design or any career where creative gifts are needed Neptune Square or Oppose the MC Neptune squares are not easy. The native may get lost in illusions. This native may dream about a career but not have the wherewithal to go about actually getting one. On the other hand, his creativity may make it hard for him to be linear to have a job with it's daily exigencies. Uranus Aspects Uranus conjunct the MC would confer a unique, out of the box quality on the native. He would find it very hard to be a nine to five person in a corporate setting. He would need to define his own career and do it his own way. Uranus Trine or Sextile the MC This native could use his ingenuity to make fantastic out of the box contributions to any job. He would be known as the person who could think outside the box. Uranus Square or Oppose the MC This native may be too weird to hold a job. I am exaggerating, a bit. However, he may find it very hard to channel his weirdness( and we all have it) to his everyday work life. Pluto Aspects Pluto conjunct the MC is a power position. One does not mess with this native because this native personifies personal power. Pluto Trine or Sextile the MC This native can take his immense personal power and channel it into a career. He has an inherent strength which he can use for his own good and that of others. Think of a Ted Cruz. Pluto Square or Oppose the MC This native may be too belligerent to hold a job. I exaggerate for artistic license. However, he may be the type to act rashly and punch out the boss instead of quietly leaving the room. His primal power may work against him because it is not channeled as is the Trine. Hence, he may lose job after job for anger displays. Chiron Aspects Chiron conjunct the MC is one of the hardest Chiron positions, second only to Chiron conjunct the ASC. Chiron conjunct the MC shows his pain to the world. One does not have much choice in any MC planet showing itself to the world. However, the last thing anyone wants is his pain on display. I think Casey Anthony had this. I am not commenting on her case, just saying that her pain was shown to the world and this placement fits. Chiron Trine or Sextile the MC This native can use his pain in his career. He may be a therapist or a writer of self help books such as a Wayne Dyer. The trine allows positive use of the planet, which is pain, in this case Chiron Square or Oppose the MC This native may be held back from a career or the career of his choice, by pain. He may not be able to get beyond his pain in order to succeed in a career. ------------------ Want to Read Simple, Fun,[i][b]Sexy[/i][/b] Articles on Astrology? Check Me Out, [b]DUDE[/b]. 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San Jose Considers New Tax to Pay for Affordable Housing
By Jennifer Wadsworth @jennwadsworth / January 3, 2014 5
Should San Jose impose a new construction tax to pay for affordable housing? (Photo via city of San Jose)
Business groups worry that San Jose could scare away developers if it imposes a fee on new home construction to pay for more affordable housing, an effort to recoup a fraction of the money lost when the state closed all redevelopment agencies.
The City Council was supposed to consider the plan in December, but a coalition led by the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce asked for a three-month delay to give the public more time to review it.
There's no guarantee that the fee would increase the affordable housing supply in San Jose, the chamber states in a letter to the city. Plus, San Jose's already tied up in litigation over a similar fee, the letter notes. The California Supreme Court is reviewing a lawsuit filed against the city by the California Building Industry Association that challenges a requirement to sell 15 percent of all new housing units at a below-market rate or pay an in-lieu fee.
The proposal going before the council this year would charge anywhere from $14 to $24 per square foot for new housing. The final amount remains to be seen.
Since the state-ordered closure redevelopment agencies, which funneled one-fifth of their revenue to affordable housing projects, cities have been scrambling to find replacement funding through impact fees like this. Fremont, San Carlos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara all passed similar fees, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. In December, Santa Clara County reassessed its role in providing affordable housing options for the lowest-income residents.
"The elimination of redevelopment and a drop in funding from the federal government and the state … all of that has conspired to create a perfect storm for rapidly rising rates of homelessness and housing poverty with rising rent," said downtown Councilman Sam Liccardo.
James Zahradka, an attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, says affordable housing funding in Santa Clara County dropped from $126 million to $47 million since 2008, mostly from a loss of redevelopment cash. San Jose subsidized 1,000 new affordable homes between 1998 and 2008 using 20 percent of the tax increment revenue from RDA. Now that's gone. A fee would help generate at least some of that funding.
"I don't want to say this is a silver bullet … but without it, they're going to be worse off," Zahradka said about the San Jose fee.
San Jose's white-hot rental market—which reached a 1 percent vacancy rate—has driven up prices and led to overcrowding, he added. It's the fourth-most expensive market in the nation, according to a recently released report by the Housing Trust Silicon Valley and Cities Association of Santa Clara County.
Countywide, 44 percent of households pay more than a third of their income in rent. Another 18 percent give up half their earnings for housing costs. Seven percent of homes are considered overcrowded, according to the U.S. Census' definition of more than a person per room. While most new-home construction creates middle- to upscale homes, the study says about 57 percent of projected population growth over the next quarter-century will live in very-low and low-income households. Meanwhile, in this county, more than half the jobs created in the next five years will pay $11 or less. And a growing senior population means more people on fixed income who need cheap places to stay.
If the city doesn't pass a fee, Zahradka says it will have a tough time meeting state-mandated affordable housing benchmarks. More importantly, it would allow the market to price out the poor and subject them to substandard living conditions.
"[If the city doesn't enact this], it's going to make it even more challenging to help them approach hitting their numbers in the housing element," Zahradka said. "That sounds like kind of a bureaucratic thing, but what it actually means is that fewer people will live in housing that is adequate for them."
The Housing Trust report defined affordable housing as multifamily housing subsidized for families that earn less than half the region's median income.
There's a downside to inclusionary fees (or impact fees), which came up in the lawsuit against San Jose. By subsidizing 20 percent of new-home construction, cities and counties force developers to overprice remaining inventory.
Before the case reached the state Supreme Court, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled that the inclusionary housing provision in San Jose lacked "a legally sufficient evidentiary showing to demonstrate justification." In other words, it failed to prove that new market-rate housing created a need for subsidized housing. Now, without waiting for a resolution on that case, the city aims to implement a new fee just like it.
A study by the Building Industry Association found that San Jose's inclusionary housing fees tacked on $20,000 to $148,000 to the cost of each housing unit, forcing developers to up the price of surrounding homes to make up for it. Cal Watchdog called the fees a scam, a way for municipalities to drive up assessed values to grow the property tax base.
"In the past, cities have been able to get courts to validate this swindle by only focusing on the proverbial tree instead of the forest," Wayne Lusvardi wrote for Cal Watchdog in 2012. "In other words, cities were successful in getting courts to only look at the lack of construction of brand new affordable housing units, not the price of all new housing."
The question is: would the market accommodate low-income buyers if cities stopped subsidizing new-home construction?
Liccardo said the impact fee merits more discussion, which the city will accommodate. There won't likely be a decision until next year anyway, he noted.
"We need to find a solution for this in Silicon Valley," he said.
Jennifer Wadsworth is the former news editor for San Jose Inside and Metro Silicon Valley. Follow her on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.
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VanillaF8ce Jan 3, 2014 @ 4:54 am
The "Sanctuary City" piper wants his money.
steven Jan 3, 2014 @ 5:57 am
Let's be honest: The developers are offloading these "fees" to the home buyer. As a result, housing is more expensive for those who are average hard-working Americans with a semi-decent job.
s randall Jan 5, 2014 @ 8:09 am
It's just another tax that the Council can selectively apply.
http://staging.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/8_12_13_city_council_developer_incentives_meeting_fiscal_year/
http://staging.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/12_16_13_starbucks_developer_living_wage_policy_city_council/
That's San Jose. A city where everything is on sale if you know to ask. Including the Council.
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Diversity and Inclusion training is often used in organizations to engage with the increasing demographic diversity in the United States. However, many organizations continue to base their trainings and initiatives on a paradigm which was primarily motivated to prevent litigation, rather than to ensure economic opportunity for all. Over time, such Diversity efforts failed in many documented instances to ensure such opportunities and in fact, created a host of unwanted side-effects, such as employee turnover, job dissatisfaction, and misconceptions regarding the soundness of Diversity and Inclusion efforts.
However, a number of organizations have undertaken Diversity and Inclusion efforts in earnest. It is in one of these organizations that this paper examines two sites to answer the following: how do members of organizations which state commitment to diversity and inclusion handle conflict after having received diversity and inclusion training?
This paper traces the development of Diversity and Inclusion through its earliest antecedents to the present day in order to understand one organization's answers to that question. This paper further argues that antecedents to contemporary Diversity and Inclusion models were based on faulty assumptions, bad faith, and did not receive the necessary institutional support--particularly from leadership--necessary to succeed. Not only do Diversity and Inclusion practices work to minimize prejudice, minimize destructive conflict/create opportunities for productive conflict, it works to break free of the zero-sum thinking of the Black/White Binary Paradigm of race (and other dominant discourses), and supports the Business Case for Diversity. This study has found that for the participants interviewed, when Diversity and Inclusion efforts are successful, conflict is handled productively, and often is not recognized as conflict at all.
Manalo, Enrico E., "A Closed Mouth Gonna Get You Nothin': How Conflict is Handled after Diversity and Inclusion Training" (2018). Graduate Masters Theses. 519.


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How Nordica Fibroid Care Center Treated Over 100 Patients Without Surgery
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Nordica is known for breaking new grounds in the area of providing quality health services, particularly for women and men as well as standard reproductive healthcare supports.
Nordica Fibroid Care Center did better when it introduced the treatment of uterine fibroid with High intensity Focussed Ultrasound, HIFU and in the last few months, it has treated more than 100 patients.
Dr Abayomi Ajayi, the MD of Nordica Fibroid Care Centre while speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday, April 15, 2022, revealed how excited he was to have reached a century of uterine fibroids treatments without surgery.
He also noted that the feedback he has gotten from some of the patients are enough proofs that HIFU is a welcome technology in the treatment of Uterine Fibroids.
"Since we opened our doors in July last year we have done 100 successful treatments to date and still counting.
"100 women have had the opportunity to get rid of fibroids and adenomyosis that may have defined their lives before they did the procedure.
"From our facility here in Lekki, we have treated women from all works of life from across the country.
"We are delighted every time a woman walks into our facility with fibroids and or adenomyosis and she leaves here a few hours later devoid of the torment of her ailment.
"The relief we see on their faces, gives us joy that the investment we have made in this area of uterine fibroid management is bringing relief to our women folk who would ordinarily have been scared of open surgery, and may have decided to live their lives with the pain, discomfort, blood loss and we have saved many women from the risk of blood transfusion, anaesthesia and loss of man-hours at work.
What does this 100th Treatment mean?
Speaking on the significance of the milestone, Dr Abayomi Ajayi emphasised that it is time for more work because there are more women out there who are yet to benefit from this technology.
"For us at the Fibroid Care Centre, it is a call to service.
"It means we are committed to working tirelessly to help more women access to the HIFU technology to deal with the fibroids.
"It is a call for us to reach out to more women living in Nigeria and the West African sub-region to take advantage of HIFU and improve the quality of their lives.
What do we see in the days ahead?
"Despite the realities we face in terms of rising energy costs, skyrocketing foreign exchange rates and the myriad of infrastructural challenges facing our country at this time, we are even more resolved to focussing our attention on expanding our scope of operations to cover other locations in Nigeria.
"In celebrating this 100th treatment, we are also expanding access for medical doctors to be trained in the use of the HIFU technology as part of our commitment to continuous professional training.
"We have called for applications from interested doctors to apply for this specialised training to join a global workforce of highly skilled individuals.
"The more doctors that are trained, the better for the patients and our health sector.
"We believe that by the time we are celebrating our 200th Treatment, Nigeria will be on the path to becoming a significant contributor to the global effort in Fibroid care management via non-invasive methods.
"I will also like to thank our partners HAIFU Chongqing for believing in us and supporting our every move since our inception," he concluded.
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Dua Lipa Shares The Story Behind The "Disco Dream" That Is Her Fashion-Packed New Video
By Alice Cary 9 October 2020
Despite the enforced down-time, 2020 has been an incredibly busy year for Dua Lipa. At the start of lockdown, she dropped her second studio album Future Nostalgia, brimming with feel-good tracks like "Don't Start Now", and "Physical". She also turned 25, and marked the occasion by midriff flossing in Supriya Lele's spring/summer 2020 plaid coord. "I never really stopped," the singer tells Miss Vogue of her whirlwind WFH schedule. Having to adapt to the changes wrought by the pandemic was "a massive learning curve for me", says the singer. "But it has been so eye-opening, and has taught me to be more patient with everything that's happening."
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Dua's tour plans were put on hold as a result of the pandemic, so she has been keen to find new ways to connect with her fans. Ahead of the release of the track "Levitating", she challenged her TikTok followers to share their #DuaVideos, to be in with a chance of landing a starring role in the music video for the single.
Thousands of people shared clips showcasing their finest dance moves, cosmic make-up skills and animation techniques, and 16 lucky fans were chosen to feature alongside Dua in the video, directed by Warren Fu. "It was such a no-brainer for me, it seemed like the best and most fun opportunity," she says. Austin Powers, '60s futurism, surrealism and Studio 54 all featured on her moodboard for the disco-inflected promo. "'Levitating' was the perfect song to encapsulate all these crazy references," she says. "It's essentially a super glorified and glamorised way of talking about falling in love for the first time."
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At the outset, Dua is seen lying atop a classic car, sporting a blonde bob and glittering eye make-up. The star then switches from her Misbhv sheer top, cargo trousers and Puma trainers into a shimmering custom Versace dress. She worked closely with the Versace team to "help her disco dream come true", and collaboratively, they reimagined a glittering archive look to be a focal point of the video.
It isn't the only head-turning piece in the clip. The fashion aficionado – whose off-duty ensembles are often a mash-up of streetwear and high fashion – hand-picked a sheer embellished Mugler dress for the video's final scene. Eagle-eyed fashion fans will remember it from creative director Casey Cadwallader's autumn/winter 2020 show – Oceana Celeste wore it as she walked the runway alongside Bella Hadid, Snoh Aalegra and Grace Bol. It was a natural choice for Dua Lipa, who wore a cut-out Mugler bodysuit for her high-energy MTV EMAs performance in November last year.
"Honestly for me, vibing off of everyone's energy was the best way to prepare for all of our scenes together," says Dexter Mayfield, who appears in Dua's video (and recently made a memorable cameo in Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Vol. 2). Dancer Olivia Wong prepared for her own big moment simply by staying calm. "Going in feeling grounded and adaptable to what could happen on set is so important," she said. Brothers Davonte House and Ajani Huff, TikTok beauty tipsters, and roller skater Kelsey Guy also join Dua in her video.
The star cites the intriguing-sounding "operation wig-snatch" as one of her favourite moments on the set. "I almost started filming with a different look, then moments before I went on camera I didn't quite like it, and quickly Chris [hairstylist Chris Appleton] – within not even five minutes – flipped the wig, changed it and gave me a whole new look," she explains. Dua is nothing if not experimental when it comes to her hair, and lockdown provided her with the perfect opportunity to play with colour. "I just love it," she says. "I think for me, hair has become like my clothes. It's all about how I feel on the day."
Having wrapped on the video, Dua isn't slowing down anytime soon. New music is reportedly already on the way, and she hints at more exciting announcements in the pipeline. On her rare nights off, she's tuning into Ryan Murphy's new Netflix drama Ratched – or taking part in some TikTok challenges of her own.
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Administration of incentive schemes, bonuses and ex-gratia and termination payments.
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Q: Converting cer or pem file to p12 (ERROR: Could not read private key from -inkey file) I bought a (E-mail ID Business (S/MIME)) certificate from certum, hoping to use to sign pdf files more affordable.
They have send me the files in plain(pem) and in binary(cer).
Here is the file list I downloaded:

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*Certificate chain Certum Digital Identification CA SHA2.cer

*Certificate chain Certum Digital Identification CA SHA2.pem

*Certificate chain Certum Trusted Network CA.cer

*Certificate chain Certum Trusted Network CA.pem

*Certificate.cer

*Certificate.pem

I tried to use below command to create p12 file.
"openssl.exe" pkcs12 -export -in D:\xampp_data\MIME\Certificate.cer -inkey D:\xampp_data\MIME\Certificate.cer -out Certificate.p12 -name "MyCert" -password pass:MyCert

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*When using the command with D:\xampp\php\extras\openssl\openssl.exe, windows 11 console does not gives any error. And there is no output file too.

*When using the command with C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.exe, windows 11 console gives below error. Win64 OpenSSL v3.0.5 Light
D:\xampp_data\MIME>"C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.exe" pkcs12 -export -in D:\xampp_data\MIME\Certificate.cer -out Certificate.p12 -name "MyCert" -password pass:MyCert
Could not read private key from -in file from D:\xampp_data\MIME\Certificate.cer

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COSO IT Team • February 11th, 2019 • 0 Comments
There has been a lot of hype around artificial leaning chatbots and here we are a long way from a genuine chatbot which can think and understand like humans do. But on the other hand, Artificial Intelligence is striving towards changing the whole business interaction with its customers by deploying chatbots. This excitement around the chatbots and AI technology has led to its evolution. But we still have to figure out which kind of chatbot is needed for the business, whether it is a rule-based approach or machine-learning deployed chatbot.
Rule-Based Approach
A rule-based chatbot actually answers questions which are based on some rules on which it is trained on. The rules can be either simple or complex. The chatbots which created with a rule-based approach are quite straight-forward which it is why is not efficient in answering questions which are not trained with the chatbot. The one such language is AIML - Artificial Intelligence Markup Language which is a language based on the XML which lets the developers write rules for the chatbots to follow them accordingly. It is very difficult to actually write the different scenarios for this kind of chatbot as one can't possibly write for every scenario. Rule-based chatbots are actually easy to implement and cheaper to build which is why they are used in places which does not require much use but just direct responses and works relatively well. The bots are just capable of answering simple queries but cannot approach difficult issues. This is why the bots cannot pass the Turing test which is based on the rule-based model.
Intelligence in Modern Chatbots
The chatbots which are designed to be deployed in businesses and companies come in two varieties. The first one is rule-based which we have explained above. The second type is based on machine learning model, where the bot actually focuses on understanding the context of the conversation to come up with solutions. The chatbot tries to figure the intention of the user behind the statement to formulate an effective response. This completely relies on training the model on a neural network which thinks on its own after being provided with a thousand examples. The machine learning chatbots are not that advanced yet to be deployed on a large scale. It cannot solve multiple cases right now for businesses. The fact is they cannot guarantee the experience that they will be delivered which can sometimes end up doing harm to the business.
The Pitfalls of Machine Learning Chatbots
Machine learning chatbots usually work for customer service support by extracting the context and then responding to what the customer says. This is a very complex approach and takes few years to develop and the approach can get wrong sometimes, especially when do not have the visual and tone of the voice to continue with. The data sets that are taken to train the models are not biased but they will be when a large number of real-world example will be absent, and this is going to be unlikely of the chatbot to cover every possible scenario that it will encounter. It is true that a machine learning chatbot will train itself to get better each time as it learns from experience but no chatbot can exactly pinpoint the human intentions through the conversational tone.
This is where the problem exists because if the chatbot fails to execute the right response to the customer it can lead to the lost time and losing the customer which might affect the company's reputation in the long run. It is also difficult to know what went wrong as the neural networks are all black boxes which makes it difficult to know how the machine applied its logic to come to the specific conclusion. You will have to reverse engineer them which is a very complex process. Most businesses do not require a chatbot as the interactions are too routine to involve a machine learning chatbot or they are very complex to even automate it.
In the end, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing chatbots are far from perfect. They have come a long way to understand the human intelligence but its need in huge business is not necessary as it is used for simple uses for now.
Machine learning is a very powerful technology which does promise a very exciting future which involves machine understanding the needs of human through their voice and texts. However, at this specific moment, we do not require machine learning chatbots for large businesses but just for scenarios where there is less scope for ambiguity and where the responses are straightforward.
But when it comes to customer service support, there is a big talk around machine learning whether the machine chatbot justify the services. To actually deploy chatbots having the confidence to interact with the customers, it is recommended to use the rule-based model.


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Кра́ново () — село в Силістринській області Болгарії. Входить до складу общини Кайнарджа.

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За даними перепису населення 2011 року у селі проживали  особи, з них 91 особа (98,9%) — болгари.

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Le Concerto pour piano  en mi bémol majeur K. 449 est un concerto pour piano et orchestre de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composé le  à Vienne. Sa dédicataire est la pianiste Babette Ployer son élève.

Instrumentation

Structure
Le concerto comprend 3 mouvements :
 Allegro vivace, en mi bémol majeur, à , cadence à la mesure 328,  - partition
 Andantino, en si bémol majeur, à ,  - partition
 Allegro ma non troppo, en mi bémol majeur, à  ➜ à  à la mesure 269,  - partition
Durée : environ

Introduction de l'Allegro vivace (Violon 1)

Introduction de l'Andantino (Violon 1)

Introduction de l'Allegro ma non troppo (Violons 1 et 2)

Liens externes
  Partition, discographie et 4 enregistrements et appareil critique dans la Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.

Bibliographie

  Cuthbert Girdlestone (1964) Mozart and his piano concertos. New York: Dover Publications. ("an unabridged and corrected republication of the second (1958) édition of the work first published in 1948 by Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, under the title Mozart's Piano Concertos." : Translation of Mozart et ses concertos pour piano.) .

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Mayor vetoes pact with tribe
Posted by Kay Lynn Roberts-McMurray | Oct 13, 2017 | News | 3
Mayor Melody VanCamp vetoed the decision three days after the Ely City Council had agreed to enter into a interstate compact with the Ely Shoshone Tribe for the sale of marijuana.
This was a topic that was on the city council for several months leading up to this decision.
The first time the Ely Shoshone Tribe approached the council and the Mayor was June 8, when Cassandra Dittus and Joe Dice with the Tribal Cannabis Consulting Firm introduced the idea of going into a compact with the Ely Shoshone Tribe pertaining to medical and recreational marijuana sales, distribution and growing.
This was going to be an opportunity for the city to bring in tax monies without doing a whole lot of work. The Tribal Store is in the county, not the city. So, having two stores in this small of a town would decrease the tax revenue.
Dice said "It's the city's opportunity to opt out and share in the revenue."
This also meant that if the City agreed to something like this, that would preclude the city from obtaining a license of it's own.
With the passing of Question 2 back in November, the law only allows two dispensaries to sell recreational marijuana.
At the time of this meeting, Councilman Bruce Setterstrom mentioned that there were two other businesses that were interested in coming to Ely.
Setterstrom moved to have the agenda item tabled so further research could be completed by the city.
Then July came around, and a new prospect interested in bringing the sale of marijuana to Ely was put on the agenda for the July 13 meeting.
VanCamp placed the item on the agenda for possible action and discussion for a request by Troy McElroy, who was requesting support from the City of Ely so he could obtain a medical marijuana dispensary permit from the State of Nevada to open and operate a medical dispensary.
McElroy currently resides in Oregon but noted that they were in the works of buying a building, purchasing a home and relocating back to Ely. McElroy lived in Ely several years ago and has been in the industry for seven years.
Councilman Kurt Carson moved to give McElroy a letter of support to obtain a medical dispensary permit from the state and a medical marijuana and recreational grow license and distributor license in the City of Ely. The motion carried unanimously.
Now fast forward to Sept. 14, the Ely Shoshone Tribe returns to the Ely City Council to to approve the request to enter into a Interstate Compact with the Ely Shoshone Tribe.
This compact would allow the Tribe to sell marijuana within city limits and have a possible location for placement of marijuana sales in the incorporated limits.
Councilwoman Jolene Gardner questioned "what about the other guy?" City Attorney Charles Odgers explained that if the Tribe places a dispensary on Tribal Land, it has no effect on the application, but if the city enters into a compact, the compact would be for five years, making the tribe the sole provider in the county for a period of five years.
Councilman Ernest Flangas has been very vocal about his dislike for any sort of a marijuana dispensary businesses in the City of Ely.
Flangas said "I'm totally against the idea because medical marijuana should be dispensed by a doctor, and picked up at a drug store. The State of Nevada is not prepared for the outcome of recreational marijuana and the City is not prepared with regulations."
Flangas asked for this item to be tabled once again. Carson was concerned with where McElroy was at with this permit especially since the City had sent a letter of support. The agenda item was tabled once again.
Two weeks later, on Sept. 28, Dice and Dittus returned to the city council meeting for the third time in hopes that the Council would enter into a compact with the Tribe.
Dice noted to the council that the tribe has a compact and they're opening, it's a matter of where. For over an hour, the council and Dice went back and forth with several questions on locations, length of the agreement, what all it would mean for the city.
Carson still was very reserved on wanting to approve the compact, Councilman Tony DeFelice noted to the council that the city had a lot to gain from this, and it being uncertain where McElroy was with obtaining his permit from the state, it would be a wise choice to enter into the compact.
DeFelice made a motion to enter into the compact with the Ely Shoshone Tribe. Flangas, tried to abstain during the vote, but not having any real reason to he was told he had to vote.
Flangas and Carson voted against it, leaving Gardner, DeFelice and Hanson carrying the motion 3-2 with their votes.
The mayors decision was due to her consulting with legal counsel and speaking with several people in the community and coming to the decision that entering into a contract with the Ely Shoshone Tribe would provide a monopoly for one company for five years.
She felt this was unfair for businesses who may want to locate to Ely and compete for customers of both the medical and recreational programs.
She also stated that she felt that this compact does not encourage new businesses rather it prevents new businesses from entering the market with the City of Ely, including stifling employment and competition.
Although the mayor did include that non-tribal businesses are required to purchase a building, or lease a building, which would increase property taxes it was mentioned in a previous city council meeting by Dice that the Ely Shoshone Tribe was looking at different properties in the City of Ely to purchase or lease.
The mayor's last concern was the federal government could come in and shut down the business since although marijuana is legal in the state of Nevada, it still remains illegal at the federal level.
Dispensaries across the state of Nevada sold $27.1 million in marijuana in Nevada in July alone. That's almost double what both Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months.
Nevada made $10.2 million off the industry during the first month of sales in July according to the Nevada Department of Taxation. Gov. Sandoval projected that the state could pull in approximately $100 million over the next two fiscal years from both taxes and fees.
The city tax percentage received from the tribe with the compact would have been 3%. The percentage they will receive from a state license entity is .8%, but by not entering into the compact the potential revenue would now be divided into two entities, one state, one tribal. The city would only receive the .8% from the city licensed entity.
The big question is what happens now? Will White Pine County ever have a dispensary? Is the Ely Shoshone Tribe going to enter into a interstate compact with White Pine County?
Several attempts were made to the Ely Shoshone Tribe for comment but no calls have been returned. The Ely Shoshone Tribe has not opened their location and there is no projected timeline for McElroy on the status of his permit.
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Wheeler	on October 13, 2017 at 4:02 pm
Nothing like a (federally illegal) all cash 'business' to attract armed robbery and good luck to any necessary security guards on that count – just ask Colorado.
Just saying...	on October 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm
Excellent retirement plan for funding the old people's housing needs… Maybe only the elderly or poor people should be allowed to grow and profit from this much like having roadside tomato stands in the summer?
Why LICENSE?? Do we really need to license tomatoes, and home gardens grown at home too?
Why make it only something that already rich people can profit on —
and still jail and arrest poor people for growing and selling it?
Just thinking: Maybe because tomatoes do not impair you and endanger you and others when you are driving or operating heavy machinery. Additionally, maybe tomatoes do not lower IQ's the way other non-legal 'garden grown' things do.


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10 Hotels Travellers Love Most in Kerala
10 Best Ranked Kerala Hotels
There's no way for you to be disappointed if you choose one of these 10 hotels travellers love the most in Kerala. This listing has been established following the feedback received from fellow travellers who stayed at these hotels, then decided to share their contentment about the quality of their accommodation with all of us.
Totally in phase with the multi-faceted aspect of the region they belong to, this list of the 10 best-ranked Kerala hotels may look multifarious at first sight. Selected by different travellers with different means and tastes in different areas of the same province, there's no doubt that the list looks eclectic. The good side of this fact is that all these hotels have pleased their previous guests, and give you the opportunity to find just the right venue for your next holiday in one of the prime destinations in India.
Taj Green Cove Resort & Spa Kovalam
Superb 4.7/5
With a stay at Taj Green Cove Resort & Spa Kovalam in Thiruvananthapuram, you'll be on the waterfront, within a 10-minute drive of Kovalam Beach and Grow Beach.Featured amenities include wired Internet access (surcharge), a 24-hour business center, and limo/town car service.Planning an event in Thiruvananthapuram?This resort has facilities measuring 6000 square feet (557 square meters), including conference space.A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free valet parking is available onsite. Read More...
Vasudevam
Great 4.3/5
With a stay at Vasudevam in Thiruvananthapuram, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Shri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.Featured amenities include a business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and laundry facilities.For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service. Read More...
Classic Sarovar Portico
With a stay at Classic Sarovar Portico in Thiruvananthapuram (Karumom), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Shri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.A shuttle from the airport to the hotel is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free valet parking is available onsite. Read More...
Hycinth Hotels
With a stay at Hycinth Hotels, you'll be centrally located in Thiruvananthapuram, within a 10-minute drive of Thiruvananthapuram Zoo and Shri Padmanabhaswamy Temple.Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out.Planning an event in Thiruvananthapuram?This hotel has facilities measuring 4189 square feet (389 square meters), including a conference center.Guests may use a train station pick-up service for a surcharge, and free valet parking is available onsite. Read More...
Hilton Garden Inn Trivandrum
A stay at Hilton Garden Inn Trivandrum places you in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram, a 1-minute drive from Trivandrum Secretariat and 6 minutes from Napier Museum.Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.Planning an event in Thiruvananthapuram?This hotel has facilities measuring 2800 square feet (260 square meters), including a conference center.Free valet parking is available onsite. Read More...
Niraamaya Surya Samudra
With a stay at Niraamaya Surya Samudra in Neyyattinkara, you'll be on the waterfront, just steps from Chowara Beach and a 3-minute drive from Azhimalathara Beach.Featured amenities include express check-in, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.Event facilities at this resort consist of a conference center and a meeting room.For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and a train station pick-up service. Read More...
The Leela Kovalam Beach
Kerala's largest resort with 182 guest rooms and suites spread over 44 acres is built on a rock-face, is cradled between two wide sweeping beaches and has a panoramic view of the famous Kovalam coastline.This 5 star deeluxe reort, with an array of superlative restaurants and lounges, also specializes in traditional Ayurveda Treatment with a Wellness Spa.The Terrace restaurant is a spectacular cliff – top all day dining restaurant.Tides restaurant with its rustic appeal serves fresh seafood by the beach.At the lobby level, The Bar overlooks the ocean view pool with large sun decks.Sky Bar, sits virtually a top the Arabian Sea. Read More...
Vivanta Trivandrum, Kerala
With a stay at Vivanta Trivandrum, Kerala, you'll be centrally located in Thiruvananthapuram, within a 10-minute drive of Trivandrum Secretariat and Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in.Planning an event in Thiruvananthapuram?This hotel has 5597 square feet (520 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms.A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free valet parking is available onsite. Read More...
Turtle On The Beach
Good 3.8/5
Art meeting architecture is unique.Isn't it art and architecture coming together to give you a unique Asian holiday more special........Standing tall as a lone beauty along the renowned Eve's beach at Kovalam Turtle on the beach celebrates art along with sophisticated luxury making it unique and special.Art defines every space here.Art in wood, stone, glass and in fact every material that you come across here.You will find art as sculptures, wall hangings, glass walls, stone carvings, sunbathing umbrella stands, huge flower pots, water flowing on glass roofs etc.Art here celebrates the idea of an inclusive world inherent in Kerala culture. Read More...
Uday Suites
When you stay at Uday Suites in Thiruvananthapuram, you'll be near the airport and 8 minutes by car from Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences.Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.This hotel has 3 meeting rooms available for events.For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and a train station pick-up service. Read More...
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Zamzam ( et parfois retranscrit Zemzem) est une source d'eau qui constitue le puits du sanctuaire de la Kaaba, à La Mecque (Arabie saoudite). D'origine miraculeuse selon l'islam et la tradition musulmane, elle aurait surgi de par la volonté de Dieu, par le biais de l'ange Gabriel creusant de son pied ou de son aile pour la faire apparaître et sauver ainsi de la mort Agar (femme d'Abraham) et leur fils Ismaël qui erraient dans le désert. Toujours en activité de nos jours, elle ne s'est jamais tarie malgré des siècles d'existence dans le désert et une très forte consommation. Les pèlerins ont à cœur d'en ramener de leur pèlerinage.

Le puits de Zamzam

Origine du nom

Une autre appellation du puits est Bir Ismaïl (« le puits d'Ismaïl ») qui vient de l'origine sémitique. Les Sémites appellent les sources (qui sont pour eux des faveurs divines) 'ayn (« œil ») ou bi'r (). La renommée de cette source s'étendait jusqu'à la Perse.

L'une des explications traditionnelles du nom du puits vient de l'expression « Zomë Zomë », signifiant « stop ». D'après les récits, Hajar a répété ces mots pour tenter de contenir la source d'eau. Une tribu de Bédouins, les Jurhum, se serait installée là en promettant de prendre soin de la mère et l'enfant. C'est ainsi, d'après la tradition musulmane et la Genèse (qui mentionne un séjour au Désert de Paran et dont estime qu'il inclut le désert d'Arabie) qu'Ismaël (qui a un demi frère, Isaac) issu d'une Égyptienne et d'un Babylonien (Abraham) grandit à la Mecque et y épousa une femme arabe de souche, dont les descendants seront les tribus arabes dites "arabisées".

Histoire

Tradition musulmane
Le prophète Abraham reçut l'ordre de se rendre à La Mecque accompagné de Hajar et son fils Ismaël. Selon la tradition, Dieu lui ordonna d'abandonner sa deuxième femme et son fils dans une vallée aride, rocheuse et inhabitée. La source de Zamzam, toujours selon la tradition, jaillit de terre sur ordre d'Allah par l'intermédiaire de l'ange Gabriel pour Hajar et son fils Ismaël, alors qu'ils se trouvaient seuls dans cette vallée désertique.

Abd al-Muttalib, l'aïeul de Mahomet, fit agrandir et embellir le puits. Il en fit garnir les parois de maçonnerie. La tradition affirme qu'il en retira un jour deux gazelles d'or, des sabres et des cuirasses dont il fit la porte de la Kaaba qu'il revêtit en plus de plaques en métal précieux tiré de l'une des statues de gazelles ; la deuxième étant placée dans le temple. D'après la croyance islamique, l'ange Gabriel a lavé le cœur du Prophète Mahomet avec l'eau de Zamzam à l'âge de 5 ans environ, le jour de sa purification.

Les traditions mecquoise et zoroastrienne

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Un très ancien sanctuaire d'un génie des eaux, près de la ville de Samarcande, actuellement en Ouzbékistan, à la limite nord-est du monde iranien, a été établi à l'endroit où la principale adduction d'eau faisait son entrée dans la ville. Il avait été islamisé sous l'invocation de Qutham, (ou Koussam Ibn Abbas, cousin du prophète) fils de al-'Abbās, l'oncle paternel du Prophète, dont se réclamaient les califes abbassides. Qutham disparut à cet endroit lors du premier siège de Samarcande par les Arabes (676) – décapité alors qu'il priait, il se releva emportant sa tête, comme saint Denis, et s'enfonça dans un puits. Al-'Abbās son père était à La Mecque le gardien de l'eau sainte du puits Zamzam. Son tombeau se trouverait sous La nécropole Chah e Zindeh  Le culte du saint dut être développé par les Abbassides, mais le lieu était sacré bien avant eux.

Informations techniques

Hydrologie

Du point de vue hydrologique, la partie supérieure du puits traverse des alluvions sableuses et la partie inférieure est creusée dans la roche, dont une partie perméable permet l'infiltration de l'eau jusqu'à la nappe phréatique.

L'origine de l'eau provient des chutes de pluies infiltrées dans la vallée et de celles provenant des collines des alentours. Elle est en diminution compte tenu de l'augmentation de la population.

Le Centre de Recherches et d'Études de Zamzam dépendant de l'Inspection Géologique Saoudienne analyse les propriétés techniques de l'eau et ces informations sont continuellement mises à jour sur internet. D'autres puits des environs sont également surveillés afin de gérer le système aquifère local.

Eau

L'eau est riche en azote, en calcium et en chlore, plutôt lourde et d'un goût âpre. Le géographe arabe El Yacoubi (mort en 897) estimait qu'« on ne pouvait pas sans inconvénient en prolonger l'usage ».

Quant à la qualité de l'eau, le prophète lui-même semble partagé dans son opinion. Un hadith promet « qu'un jour sa saveur deviendrait plus délectable que les flots du Nil et de l'Euphrate ». Certainement au fait de ce hadit, Méhémet Ali, le premier vice-roi d'Égypte (1805-1848), fit son pèlerinage de la Mecque avec des provisions d'eau du Nil pour tout son séjour.

Concentrations minérales selon les chercheurs de l'Université du Roi-Saoud : Sodium /L, Calcium /L, Magnésium /L, Potassium /L, Bicarbonate /L, Chlorure /L, Fluorure /L, Nitrate /L, Sulfate /L, pH 8 ; Total alcanilité /L /L.

Architecture

On trouve l'accès du puits sacré en tournant le dos à la Kaaba. De larges marches descendent sous le temple. Une ouverture est réservée aux hommes, une autre aux femmes. À l'origine, la source se trouvait près de la station d'Abraham (ce n'est pas le tombeau du patriarche qui se trouve à Hébron, mais une sorte d'escabeau rocheux sur lequel celui-ci s'est hissé pour fixer la Pierre Noire. Le roc porte deux empreintes profondes de pieds joints) dotée d'une somptueuse margelle et surmontée d'une voûte.

Le puits a été aménagé par les Saoudiens en salles d'eau souterraines pour dégager complètement le tawaf. Une série de robinets dispensent l'eau sacrée, de surcroît assainie et glacée et des lavabos (comme de larges pupitres incurvés) sont installés pour les pèlerins, à l'abri de la canicule. Les croyants s'y désaltèrent et s'y lavent. Au fond du hall, vaste et carrelé, il y a une petite galerie fermée par des plaques en verre épais où un moteur et des tuyaux puisent et régulent le débit de la source. C'est l'emplacement antique du puits, protégé et sur lequel veille une sentinelle.

Le puits a été creusé à la main. Il fait environ  de profondeur et 1.08 à 2,66 de diamètre. L'eau vient des alluvions de la rivière Wadi et du fond rocheux. À l'origine, l'eau était puisée à l'aide de cordes et de seaux. Depuis, des pompes électriques extraient l'eau qui est disponible dans tout le Masjid al-Haram par des fontaines et des containers près de la zone de Tawaf.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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What image of yours are you most proud of?
Likely as not, you're picturing a shot (or, for the indecisive among you, a few shots) in your head right now. Have you ever submitted it to an exhibition or competition?
Paul Bridge, owner of London's newly opened Album gallery, wanted to see some special images for its inaugural exhibition, but wasn't sure how best to gather them. Whatever genre he chose would automatically restrict what kind of photographs, and photographers, he would see.
The solution: simply send out a call asking photographers for their best shot. No genre restrictions, no entry requirements. Just a simple request for whatever image they thought would be 'worthy of featuring in an exhibition'.
The result is 'egalitaria': a collection of images that underlines just how broad and expansive a practice photography is. Portraits, travel shots, abstracts, landscapes and more all sit alongside one another.
We got in touch with Paul to find out a little more about what happens when you ask photographers from all around the world to send you any image about anything. Read on for our q&a.
What image would you have submitted?
Amateur Photographer: The brief for the egalitaria exhibition was for photographers anywhere to submit images of any kind that they thought 'worthy of a place in an exhibition'. What inspired this idea?
Paul Bridge: I wanted my own gallery but was clear I didn't want it to just be about me.
Album, is a direct result of my commitment to the belief that a quality print is the natural and desirable endpoint of a good photograph. I felt I couldn't be alone in feeling that, and social media made it straightforward to find photographers with the same belief and invite them to be considered for our first exhibition.
I printed professionally at a high level for a number of years and I know the 'acid test' for my own pictures remains whether or not I feel an image is worthy of going forward to a large scale print. Meanwhile we live in a time when the whole notion of printing might slip away despite more people creating more photographs than ever. I am far from being a 'digital denier', yet however convenient it may be to take, review, enhance and publish photographs within the digital world, it remains true that viewing on a screen is neither as instructive for the image-maker or as satisfying for the viewer. Displayed prints become part of the fabric of where they are on show.
So given that the whole idea behind Album is to demonstrate the power of the print, beyond that I wanted to offer a level opportunity to everyone. I gave a lot of thought to steering the type of images but any conditions of entry always seemed to go against that principle, hence the open invitation and the exhibition title: egalitaria.
AP: What kind of images were you expecting?
PB: I never settled on a solid expectation about what would come into Album's inbox. I feared sometimes that none at all would arrive. At other times I worried that in a world where hundreds of millions of photographs are loaded into the cloud every day, there would be a deluge of images and none be suitable.
Logic told me to expect enough photographs of quality to create a credible exhibition, and I kept the faith with my decision to do egalitaria as Album's first show. For a couple of weeks not much happened, and then one great image arrived, then another, and at that point we knew we would get enough.
AP: And what kind of images did you receive?
PB: I know people are drawn to photography for any number of reasons. Some love the technology and are wildly engaged with mastering it. Others have an imagination and choose photography to make their vision real. Others have an abiding interest in a subject such as wildlife or astronomy and photography is a means to engage more deeply with it rather than an end in itself.
At the end of five weeks over 1200 submissions were made and I think they reflected the full diversity of how and why people pursue photography. The evidence is that people take their cameras everywhere, photograph everything.
Summing-up the extraordinary diversity of the pictures submitted while remaining accurate and fair is extraordinarily difficult. There were a few abstracts but for the most part human activities dominated: daily life, ceremonies and rituals, the growing and consumption of food, the wish for exploration and adventure and the desire to create original imagery were themes which established themselves as I watched new arrivals in the exhibition inbox.
Portraiture, both formal and informal, as a means of communicating other realities ran through all submissions as the strongest thread.
AP: What surprised you about the submissions?
PB: First and foremost the quality of the photographs submitted. There is clearly a mountain of talent out there working hard with their cameras. We received submissions from every continent except Antarctica. Stylistically they ranged from the picturesque, which would happily grace high-end travel publications, to provocative constructed images which would sit easily in high-minded art magazines.
The happiest surprise (and with hindsight it remains so) was how few photographs disqualified themselves for simply being poor. Fewer than ten percent were instantly dismissible. We are all too accustomed to news stories about social media creating frenzies of nonsense, but that simply did not happen here.
The biggest surprise was that some 400 pictures, that's around a third of the total entries, were worthy of consideration to be exhibited, but had been so over-processed they were simply unprintable. The exif data on many revealed processing by free one-click programmes and apps, and I am sure when viewed on a smartphone or tablet the results seemed full of impact.
Seen on a high-resolution monitor, it was clear even a modestly sized print would show a fatal lack of detail and nuance. This for me was both surprising and upsetting, for many of these images were engaging and were obviously hard-won by the photographers involved, and their use was now restricted by the promise of a shortcut.
Several hundred more fell into the category which in my mind came to be 'I see what you are aiming for, but you just didn't get there'. The surprise here was the extent to which camerawork seems to be a pursuit of the classic image be it a cascading waterfall or great sunset, the glimpse of a wild creature and so on. Judging the quality of your own work is always difficult this class of entry demonstrated how high the standard is we take for granted and how difficult it is to reach that benchmark. I found shifting images into this category surprisingly unsettling, but it had to be done.
AP: Were you worried that it might be difficult to create a coherent exhibition? Did the immense variety cause challenges in the curation process?
PB: I had moments of terror and elation.
This exhibition is so against the orthodox concept and structure of an exhibition it sometimes seemed unlikely I would make sense of the selection process. But equally I became reacquainted with photos I hadn't seen since the day they landed in the inbox, and the sheer quantity of quality work began to justify the fundamental idea which launched the project.
Finally I created a virtual version of the gallery inside the PC and made scaled images of all the images that were left and tried different configurations until I had a result. And I confess many final choices were simply arbitrary.
AP: Will you be putting out this call again?
I will undoubtedly repeat egalitaria; it's a compelling exhibition and the more interested you are in photography the more interesting and worthwhile it is. Which is a success for Album and a victory for all the photographers who trusted us to print and display their pictures.
There's such a wealth of talent and ability out there I may also choose to do other open call exhibitions that provoke a theme.
AP: Can you tell us about future plans for Album?
PB: Album is about making the print the hero and I plan about 6 shows each year falling into three main strands.
First I want to continue with the open-call type of exhibition and establish a potent reputation for uncovering the kind of work currently on display. Beyond that I want to help establish the reputation of new photographers, and I am already in correspondence with one photographer in the current exhibition about a solo or small group exhibition.
Finally I know there are many photographers from the recent past whose work is at risk of being overlooked and perhaps forgotten and I have a number of names in my head whose work I would like to revitalise or cast in a new light.
It's also important that we reach out with special visits for local school students and make Album welcoming and worthwhile to anybody interested in photography. I intend Album to be a compelling place which photographers feel they must visit because of the pictures on show and the print stock and training we offer.
All the feedback we have had so far has been fantastic and as a new gallery with a slightly different take we are filled with confidence for the future.


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Mary Babick serves as the USHJA president and chair of the USEF National Breeds and Disciplines Council. She also is an active member of several USHJA and USEF committees, including the USEF National Hunter Committee, the USHJA Sport Integrity Task Force, and the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program Committee. As a USEF "R" Hunter and Equitation judge and USHJA Certified Trainer, Babick frequently travels throughout the country to judge, teach clinics and act as volunteer coordinator for USHJA Emerging Athletes Program Regional Training Sessions.
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Babick has served as a member of the USHJA board of directors since 2010, serving as the Hunter Discipline vice president and a member of the Executive Committee since 2012. Additionally, she has served on the Planning Committee, the Emerging Athletes Committee as well as chairing the Youth Committee.
William Sparks, a native of San Antonio, began his riding career when he was just 10 years old. He competed successfully as a junior in the AHSA medal finals and the ASPCA Maclay finals. He was also a top-10 finisher nationally in the junior hunters.
Sparks attended the University of Texas at Austin and earned a degree in International Business while continuing his showing success in the Amateur-Owner Hunters. At 25, William turned professional for Pine Hollow Farm, and then, Memorial Park Hunters in Houston. As a professional, clients achieved national success including Small and Medium Pony of the Year and reserve in Large Pony Hunters.
Currently, Sparks judges approximately 30 shows a year including Pony Finals and the International Derby Finals. He has judged many equitation finals such as the CPHA Medal, Onondarko, Norcal, Zone 7 and NCEA Nationals.
Kim Myers and Bob Kail will judge the Western divisions.
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Meyers and his wife Renee live in Felton, Pennsylvania. Together, they own and operate Kim and Renee Myers and Family Quarter Horses. They have been training and showing horses together for over 40 years and have trained and shown numerous World and Congress champions and many other notable titles.
Bob Kail, has been a judge for 36 years. Kail holds cards for the AQHA, NRHA, NSBA, NRCHA and WCHA. He has judged many of the most prestigious shows, such as the Open and Amateur World shows, The Youth World, NRHA Futurity, NRHA Derby, NSBA World, The Reichert Celebration, The Tom Powers Futurity, The Little Futurity and the Iowa Breeders Halter Futurity. He has judged in Canada, Australia, Mexico and throughout South America.
As a showman, he has won multiple World Championships in halter as well as numerous Congress and Futurity Championships, in the Western pleasure pen. He has trained and coached many World and Congress champions in the Youth and Amateur divisions and specializes in halter, western pleasure and all-around events.
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George Michael in 2006, Munich (Germany). Photo by insasse (own work.) [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
Services were pending Monday for George Michael, a teenage music idol of the 1980s who struggled with drugs and controversies over his homosexuality.
The superstar died peacefully at his home from heart failure. He was 53.
A co-star of the pop duo Wham! and later a solo artist, Michael was best known for Wham! hits such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," "Careless Whisper" and "Everything She Wants." His popular solo songs included "Faith" and "I Want Your Sex."
"It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully," a statement from his publicist read in an announcement on Christmas day. "The family would ask their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage."
Besides his music, Michael also was known for being a proud gay man, despite having his homosexuality originally and humiliatingly first exposed when he was arrested for lewd conduct in a public toilet in 1998.
Michael had other legal battles during his career and struggled with drug use, noting at a press conference in 2011 that he felt he had let young people down with his misbehavior and had made it easier for others to denigrate homosexuals.
But what people remembered most on Christmas Day when his death was announced was only that they loved the man and his music, as fans and other mainstream artists alike took to praising and mourning him on social media.
"Rest with the glittering stars, George Michael," actor George Takei posted online. "You've found your Freedom, your Faith. It was your last Christmas, and we shall miss you terribly."
Musician Elton John posted a photo of the two of them together and wrote, "I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend — the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family, friends and all of his fans."
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The Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow also issued the following statement about the two-time GRAMMY Award recipient.
"We are deeply saddened," Portnow said. "During an influential career that spanned nearly four decades, George became one of the most beloved pop craftsmen and respected entertainers. From the enormous success he achieved with pop duo Wham! to his influential solo career, his extraordinary talent had a profound impact on countless entertainers worldwide, and his creative contributions will live on forever."
— City News Service
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