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Students Symposium with the main topic: "Environmental awareness as a universal European Value" is financially supported by the Visegrad Fund – link. This symposium was organized in frame of the International May Conference on Strategic Management – IMKSM2016 (28-30 May 2016). The project is listed with the following classification number 11540386.
Project description: Environmental protection is one of the basic and fundamental European values. Preservation and improvement of this concept implies a collective partnership action, both within the EU and beyond. In order to facilitate the adoption of environmental (ecological) values and environmentally (ecologically) responsible action, it is necessary to educate citizens, especially young people, about the importance of environmental protection. The research and comparative analysis of the environmental awareness of youth from V4 countries and Serbia as a country in transition, will set the framework for mutual cooperation on the adoption of environmental principles, both the institutional and non-institutional level.
Considering that most of the environmental problems are regional or global, it is required to join actions of all interested countries in order to preserve the concept of sustainability. The theme that was specially elaborated in documents about environmental protection of the European Union is the enlargement of the EU. In the process of joining the EU, candidate countries, among which is Serbia, will have to synchronize their environmental standards with European, but also achieve sustainability by increasing environmental awareness, which is foreseen the current Action Plan for the Protection of the Environment – 7th Environmental Action Programme 2010 -2014 (ec.europa.eu). That would be very helpful for Serbia in order to adopt experience and knowledge of V4 countries which are EU member states.
The aim of this project is reflected in continuation of cooperation between the V4 countries and Serbia in terms of the concept of sustainability and environmental protection. As a future holder of improvement and promotion of environmental values, it is important to follow and encourage the awareness of youth in this regard. The sustainability of natural resources and prevention of environmental problems depends of the level of environmental awareness of students as future academic citizens and decision makers, which is the goal of this project.
After collecting 430 response and processing the results of the survey, a comparative analysis of the conclusions, with a view to defining similarities and differences of environmental awareness of young people from participating countries, was done.
Final results of the analysis was presented during the Students Symposium on 28-30 of May 2016 in Bor (Serbia). Organization of international student symposium on this subject, was planned and facilitated where students had a chance to present their scientific papers from environmental issues and meet their colleagues, and the general public, with the existing practice of application of ecological principles in their countries. The study and the reports of all participants will be summarized in the monograph that will be useful as practicum for easy practical and effective implementation of EU legislation on environmental protection in all partner countries. Also, the results will help to indicate the best way of raising environmental awareness among youth, thus ensuring the most perspective environmental future of Europe.
March 2016, Participants of the project finalized the framework of the joint research and the questionnaire was developed to be used for assessing the environmental awareness of young people, among which the students of all partner Universities on the project. The final version of the questionnaire is presented here:ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY .
In frame of this activity, representatives of each partner institution had collaborated to develop the final version of the survey tool. Also, during the March 2016 the initial online meeting was organized to discuss the next steps in the research. This was done using the online virtual meeting on Skype (https://join.skype.com/rIbaVNM1svjg).
March – April 2016, In this period of time, all partner institutions promoted the online questionnaire to their students. It was expected that all institutions will attract at list 50 respondents. Actually, larger number of responses was collected: 430 in total. The results of survey are collected in the central data base.
April – May 2016, results of the survey was processed and analysed using the linear and nonlinear statistical data analysis. This enabled obtaining the level of awareness of the young population on environmental issues. Also, comparative analysis was done for different countries included in the project. Obtained results gave the directions for further development of the actions on the research of the topic. This activity was completed on 15th of May 2016.
29th of May 2016, The final meeting of the representatives of the partner institution was organized (for professors and researchers). At this meetings, the representatives of all partners agreed on the scope and the contents of the international monograph which will result from this project.


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Q: SQL JOIN statement with two fields equal to one [CodeIgniter] I am trying to put together a SQL statement which pulls the names of employees that have a certain title and how many labor hours that they currently have in total for a total of the current week. I am working with two different tables, so I assume that I would need to use JOIN in this case, however my dilemma is that I would need to join two fields from TABLE A to one field on TABLE B. Is this possible?
See below for my code (so far):
public function get_all_techs_with_hours()
        {
            // get all technicians
            $this->db->select('*');
            $this->db->from('employees');
            $this->db->where('role', 'Body Technician');
            $this->db->or_where('role', 'Paint Technician');
            $this->db->or_where('role', 'Combo Technician');
            $query = $this->db->get();
            return $query;
        }

In this case, employees is TABLE A and jobs is TABLE B. I need to JOIN TABLE B to TABLE A based on jobs.body_tech matching employees.first_name and employees.last_name. Atleast, I think I do. I'm sure I'm going about this the hardest approach possible, but I can't seem to find any helpful manual to learn how to do this. In the end, all I would like to do is combine all hours for each technician and add to the same array using two different tables.

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St. Theresa Point Woman Charged With Manslaughter
By Manitoba Post Staff
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MANITOBA - A 28 year-old woman from St. Theresa Point has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of a man on November 28th.
Cheryl Lynn Flett was arrested on December 1st after an investigation into the death of a 28 year-old man who was taken to the St. Theresa nursing station with life threatening injuries that he sustained from an assault with a weapon. He was later flown to Winnipeg but died as a result of his injuries.
Island Lake RCMP along with the RCMP Major Crime Unit continue to investigate.
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Marion Brunken, Executive Director
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Ian Sterne, Until Help Arrives Co-facilitator
Marion, a native of Germany and a social worker by trade, has been involved in the Washington, D.C. non-profit arena for over 17 years, working with communities, nonprofit and government agencies, and volunteers. As the Executive Director, at Volunteer Alexandria, she works with local municipal and community leaders to connect needs and people to further enhance the lives of Alexandria residents, visitors and businesses. Marion has served in this role since 2012 during which time she has significantly moved the organization forward to expand programs and increase visibility in the community.
Prior to her service at Volunteer Alexandria, Marion served for eight years as the Employee Engagement Manager at Freddie Mac where she created and oversaw volunteer opportunities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for over 5,000 employees. During one of her Habitat for Humanity projects she created, she had the pleasure of working with President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. In 2005, she received Freddie Mac's Premium Achievement Award for her leadership in engaging employees in volunteering.
Marion began her career in volunteer service management as the Special Events Coordinator with the DC volunteer center, Greater DC Cares, from 1998 to 2002. She was responsible for creating service projects for 3,000 volunteers performing community service at more than 70 schools, and nonprofit and City agencies, and for creating an event for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service in 2001 involving community leaders within the City, as well as local government. During this event, she had the pleasure of working with President Bill Clinton.
She followed as Operations Manager from 2002 to 2004 at Volunteer Alexandria (then called the Alexandria Volunteer Bureau).
Marion is a graduate of Leadership Alexandria's first class (2004) and has served as a Virginia Volunteer since 2009 for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Currently, she serves on several community committees including, the Alexandria Council for Human Service Organizations (ACHSO), ACTion Alexandria, Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria, and Hunger Free Alexandria.
In her spare time, she likes to spend time with her friends, ride her motorcycle, garden and read books.
Contact Marion at mbrunken@volunteeralexandria.org.
Cordell Fields, Volunteer and Database Coordinator
Cordell joined Volunteer Alexandria in December 2019. He is responsible for managing and maintaining the volunteer database, creating and implementing programming, training volunteers, and conducting community engagement.
Prior to joining Volunteer Alexandria, Cordell managed logistics and operations for a residential summer STEM program, served as a Youth Employment Counselor with Alexandria's Department of Community & Health Services, and coordinated workforce development and youth programs for a parks-based non-profit. He also worked several years at the Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute as a program aide and Internship Coordinator.
When he's not working, he likes to try new restaurants, deeply ponder our current state of affairs, contemplate whether a second Cinnabon is worth it, and visit baseball stadiums around the country. Cordell graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Public Administration.
Contact Cordell at BWI@volunteeralexandria.org.
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D'Mario is a DC resident originally from the state of Illinois. He has worked in volunteerism all his life. Something instilled in him at a young age by his Great Grandmother Zella Mae Valentine. She taught him that one hand was created to help yourself, and the other was created to serve others. From working in the church pantry with her, to working with the men of Omega Psi Phi in the male protégé program to serve, to joining a service organization of his choice Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. all of which missions was to serve the community and those around you. Fort the past 3 years, D'Mario has worked at Martha's Table where he served as a volunteer engagement manager and helped manage over 180,000 volunteer opportunities, and now will be working with Volunteer Alexandria and the good people of Alexandria. D'Mario's background is in volunteerism, human resources, hospitality, and event management.
After picking up a volunteer opportunities flyer at an outdoor event, Theresa began doing social media for Volunteer Alexandria in September 2017. She thought it sounded like a good way to give back using her experience as a marketer for mission-driven organizations. More than four years later, she continues to be amazed at the positive power of social media.
Her favorite social media posts are the Volunteer Shout Outs which show the tremendous generosity of our community and the difference that one person can make. She credits her work with Volunteer Alexandria for helping her keep a healthy outlook on life, i.e., staying sane, while quarantining with her family during COVID.
A native of the DMV, Theresa puts an "r" in Washington, a "e" in Maryland, and her heart in Virginia. She enjoys Swings coffee, the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage, and fireworks, especially at the Alexandria Birthday Party. She lives with her husband, daughter, and a cat who likes to help with the social media posts.
Theresa donates 90% of her time to Volunteer Alexandria and we couldn't do what we do without her commitment, energy, skills, talents, and time she spends with us.
Michele is a value driven leader and strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills and the understanding that people make the difference. She comes with an extensive background of over 20 years of retail management experience focused on providing outstanding internal and external customer engagement, Human Resources, and operational excellence.
Service for and to others has always been paramount for Michele. She has been involved with various aspects of volunteering from all different levels, helping to coordinate and execute multiple charitable events for previous employers which benefitted both individuals as well as businesses.
As a native Islander, Michele and her family has been personally impacted by natural disasters in the past which led to assisting in shelters, safe havens, soup kitchens and an interest in emergency preparedness. Michele started as a volunteer at Volunteer Alexandria, conducting outreach events across the City and educating the public on how to be preared for different kind of disasters, as well as demonstrated to children how a virus like COVID spreads and why it is important to wear a mask, etc. Michele successfully participated in several FEMA courses and currently is on her way to become a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member.
In her new role, she will inspire and mobilize people to become involved in emergency response/recovery activities, as well as engage and assist the community to be prepared. Michele has always felt passionate about serving others and helping to keep her community safe.
Contact Michele at emergencyresponse@volunteeralexandria.org.
Muata Jordan Langley, Alternative Community Service
Muata enjoys good robust coffee and classical jazz. Over recent years travel has ignited his spirit to … explore, dream and discover ... people, cultures and places around the globe. Wife, Mpande, and Muata moved to the metro-DC area from "The Nutmeg State" (Connecticut), exactly one week before 9/11.
Muata is a seasoned human service practitioner with a passion for people-centric service. His career began as protégé to youth development specialist William T. Harper who hired him to manage New Haven's first runaway youth, women and family shelter. Experienced with startups, later he launched the Governor's Connecticut Mentoring Partnership, the Youth in Service Ambassadors AmeriCorps public safety program, and the Norwalk-Kiwanis Emergency Shelter. His motto, "Always leave things better than you inherit them," focused him professionally as he transformed community-based programs and initiatives to make them better. While branch director of the Red Cross he increased volunteer enrollment to record numbers. Under his leadership the AmeriCorps program became a national model. Further, Muata facilitated community education campaigns for HIV/AIDS, substance abuse treatment and prevention, youth mentoring and served as director of programs helping ex-offenders and their families rebuild their lives at OAR of Fairfax.
In 2013, Muata founded npo360 solutions and peopleslensfoto to help nonprofits adopt innovative thinking, performance measurement standards and outcomes in order to increase their performance, accountability and success. Studying at Baruch College (CUNY) he earned a graduate degree in public administration and National Urban Fellow honors. He pursued a BS in human services from New Hampshire College. Today, education continues for Muata. He is a masters candidate in the Nonprofit and Association Management program at the University of Maryland.
Contact Muata at acs@volunteeralexandria.org.
Ian is a life-long Washingtonian. He previously worked as a sheltering expert for the American Red Cross (ARC) in the National Capital Region, inspecting over 100 possible shelter sites in the DMV including Mega Shelters and wrote response plans for each of them.
He later transitioned to a disaster response role and became the Disaster Service Coordinator of Fairfax Country, leading ARC disaster volunteers as they prepared for and responded to local disasters. When the National Capital Region merged with the Arlington County and the City of Alexandria chapters, Ian took over Disaster Response for all three jurisdictions for two years before joining Volunteer Alexandria as an Emergency Preparedness Manager where he became an Until Help Arrives (UHA) trainer and has presented UHA to over 500 people.
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La estación de Dourdan es una estación ferroviaria francesa, situada en la comuna homónima, en el departamento de Essonne, al suroeste de la capital. Por ella transitan algunos trenes regionales y la línea C de la Red Exprés Regional más conocida como RER donde se configura como parte del ramal C4.

Historia
Fue inaugurada en 1865 como parte de la línea Brétigny-sur-Orge - Tours. Inicialmente, fue gestionada por la Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans hasta que en 1938 las seis grandes compañías privadas que operaban la red se fusionaron en la empresa estatal SNCF.

El 26 de septiembre de 1979, se integró dentro de la línea C del RER.

Descripción
La estación, que se encuentra a unos 50 kilómetros al suroeste de París, se compone de un clásico edificio de dos plantas con un pequeño anexo lateral.

Dispone de dos andenes, uno central y otro lateral y de tres vías, cuatro más se configuran como vías de servicio. Una pasarela permite sortear las vías y existe un paso subterráneo para acceder al andén central.

Servicios ferroviarios

Trenes regionales
 Línea París - Tours vía Auneau, Voves, Châteaudun y Vendôme.

Trenes de cercanías
 Línea C del RER.

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

 Página web SNCF - TER centro

Estaciones de la línea RER C
Estaciones de ferrocarril de Francia inauguradas en el siglo XIX
Zona 5 de transporte público de Isla de Francia
Estaciones de ferrocarril del departamento de Essonne
Estaciones de ferrocarril inauguradas en 1865
Francia en 1865

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Malloy Vetoes ECS bill, Declines To Sign Health Measure
CT Mirror, June 4, 2018
By Mark Pazniokas
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy hasvetoed a bill that would have prohibited him or future governors from cutting education-cost sharing grants to cities and towns as a means of addressing a budget shortfall that develops during the fiscal year.
He also allowed a bill to become law without his signature, a first for the governor. The new law he declined to sign allows pregnant women to purchase health insurance from Access Health CT outside the enrollment period.
The veto was the governor's first in 2018.
"This bill would prevent any future governor from making rescissions to certain municipal grants without regard to communities' relative need or ability to fund their own spending decisions, and without regard to the seriousness of a financial emergency in the state," Malloy said in his veto message. "In doing so, it would help the wealthiest cities, towns, and residents at the expense of the poorest."
By law, the governor has limited authority to unilaterally make budget cuts known as rescissions when there is a general-fund shortfall of more than one percent of appropriations. He generally can make cuts of up to five percent of an appropriation account.
"It is understandable that legislators wish to provide more certainty to the municipalities and school districts that they represent," Malloy wrote. "This bill, however, takes a misguided approach. If the legislature wishes to provide additional stability and predictability to cities and towns in formulating their budgets, the best way to do so is to pass a state budget that identifies specific savings or additional revenue to pay for the level of assistance it wishes to provide."
In recent years, the legislature has left to the governor the task of making unspecified cuts to balance the budget, rather than specifying specific savings. Malloy has justified cuts to wealthy communities, saying they can afford to absorb the relatively small loss of funds.
"It is indisputable that our current distribution methods for state aid to local governments favor our most affluent communities," he wrote. "This is even more egregiously true if we consider the more than $1 billion in state support for local teacher pensions that is provided with no consideration of ability to pay."
The bill passed by veto-proof margins of 117-32 in the House and 36-0 in the Senate.
Senate Republican leader Len Fasano of North Haven was harshly critical.
"Today the governor decided to veto an important, bipartisan bill that gives all our towns and cities and local property taxpayers the stability and predictability they deserve," Fasano said. "It is not about helping some towns and not others, as the ever divisive governor is claiming. It is a bill that will help all towns and cities, all schools and children and all taxpayers who are hurt by mid year budget cuts issued unilaterally by a governor."
The health measure was unusual in that it allows women to get health coverage for pregnancies after becoming pregnant. The bill makes pregnancy a "qualifying life event," like the birth of a child or a job loss, so expectant mothers could enroll in individual health insurance plans outside of the yearly open enrollment period.
It requires certain insurance plans to provide a special enrollment period to eligible pregnant women who do not have insurance that covers the minimum essential healthy benefits required by the Affordable Care Act.
It is indisputable that our current distribution methods for state aid to local governments favor our most affluent communities, Malloy noted
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"As Governor, I have never before allowed a bill to become law without my signature. I am choosing to do so now with clear intention and purpose," Malloy wrote to lawmakers. "First, I wish to draw special attention to certain issues relating to our health insurance exchange, and how we can best position it for long-term growth and viability. And second, I hope to engage with you in a conversation about how changes in benefits mandated by state law can affect rates paid by Connecticut consumers, and the resulting impact on our local insurance industry."
The bill passed by a vote of 139-10 in the House and 35-0 in the Senate.
"To begin, while this bill is undoubtedly admirable in its public policy goal, it gives me concern for the future stability of our insurance marketplace. The foundational philosophy underlying the Affordable Care Act is that individuals should be insured at all times, not just when an individual needs to utilize insurance. This is why enrollment periods and the individual mandate were originally implemented and why I requested that we create our own individual mandate, as our neighbors in New Jersey did recently."
Malloy said the bill weakens a fundament tenet of health insurance — the principle of spreading and pooling risk.
"Permitting the diagnosis of a health condition to be a triggering event for a special enrollment period has a disproportionate effect on the insurance risk pool, increasing the costs for every single person seeking to purchase insurance in the individual market," he wrote. "Research tells us that cost is the greatest barrier to acquiring and maintaining health insurance, and we must carefully consider any public policy that increases health insurance premiums."
Malloy said the bill will increase annual costs by $70 per person.
Again, Fasano was critical.
"The governor has reached a new low by putting divisive politics before women's rights," he said. "He is a hypocrite. For someone who claims he is a champion for women his flat out refusal to sign a common sense bill to help pregnant women access prenatal care shows his true colors. This bill helps women and their babies who are vulnerable to risky pregnancies and complications throughout their entire lives because they have to wait until their babies are born before they can obtain health insurance. It's not right."
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Penstemon - Dasanthera Group
The genus Penstemon is the largest plant genus endemic to North America. With some 270 or so species, they occur in every State and most Canadian Provinces. They extend from Alaska south to Guatemala. While distributed over much of North America, their distribution is primarily among the mountains of the west.
With so many members, it is not surprising that the genus has been broken up into several subgenera, based on similar floral characteristics. One particular subgenus is the Dasanthera group. So what makes this group unique? Well, most species are evergreen and form small shrubs commonly referred to as sub-shrubs, hence are often referred to as the 'Shrubby Penstemon'. They are also among the longest-lived species in this genus of often short-lived perennials. They are all native to the montane regions of the Pacific northwest where they grow upon granitic or other acidic rock types. The flowers of the wild forms are mostly in shades of purple but nearly a century of hybridization has lead to a greater diversity of colours. The blooms are produced on relatively short, one-sided racemes in late spring-early summer.
Culture is quite simple in this group. Full sun to part-shade, even moisture and acidic soil. They are among the most wet-tolerant Penstemon making them suitable for climates where the other dryland types are challenging. Having said this, they are also reasonably drought-tolerant. However, they are not as hardy as some species. Zone 5-8 is ideal, but they can survive zone 4 if protected by boughs in winter. In fact, even in warmer climates they prefer some winter shading which makes a loose covering by boughs ideal. Avoid excess fertilizing as plants may literally bloom themselves to death!
Propagation may be by seed or cuttings. Seeds require at least 8 weeks of stratification to freely germinate. Cuttings and simple layering are simple as the plants often root as they creep over the soil surface.
The subgenus contains 9 species, several which are further divided into varieties. Penstemon barrettiae is native to the Columbia River area of Oregon and Washington. Plants reach to 30 cm and produce rose-purple to lilac flowers. The leaves are among the largest of the Dasanthera group (to 9 cm) and quite thick and succulent. This species is also among the most tender, at least in my experience. The cultivar 'Gina' has rose-pink flowers.
Penstemon cardwellii is native to the area west of the Cascades, growing at lower elevations and a much wetter climate than many members of this group (maybe that's why it grows like a weed for me!). Plants may reach 60 cm but are generally under 30. They can form quite wide patches. Their growth habit is similar to P. fruticosus but are easily distinguishable by their dull grey-green leaves and bluntly toothed leaves (P. fruticosus has dark, shiny leaves with pointed serrations). Winter foliage often turns purplish to maroon. The flowers are bright purple to blue-purple but 'Albus' has white flowers while 'Roseus' are pink. This is probably the easiest species to grow among this group.
Penstemon davidsonii is a lower, mat-forming species reaching perhaps 10 cm. There are three named natural varieties. P. davidsonii var. davidsonii hails from the central Sierra Nevada north through the Cascades of Oregon and Washington. The leaves are smooth edged and the flowers are reddish-mauve. P. davidsonii var. menziesii is the most popular with a smaller, neater habit, toothed leaves and lavender flowers. It is native from Mt. Rainier north into British Columbia. The last variety is called praeteritus and is the smallest, most lovely but unfortunately least common of the species. It is native to SW Oregon, growing in a drier climate than the other varieties. This may be the reason why the plants are more compact with smaller, thicker foliage. The lavender to violet flowers are nearly twice the size of the other P. davidsonii varieties.
Penstemon ellipticus is native to the high elevations of the Rockies from southern Alberta and British Columbia south to Idaho and Montana. Plants grow to 15 cm with light purple-pink flowers. It appears to be more fussy in cultivation demanding winter shading (in the wild they are often under several metres of snow all winter).
Penstemon fruticosus is perhaps the most popular of the group, perhaps due to its ability to tolerate drought and winter sun with no extra protection. In fact, the winter leaves in sunny regions turn a shiny deep burgundy. This 20-30 cm tall species is native to drier regions east of the Cascades. The variety scouleri (sometimes incorrectly listed as P. scouleri) is native to the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, NE Washington and northern Idaho. It has quite narrow leaves compared to the straight species. The variety serratus, native to the Snake River Canyon, is the most dwarf with heavily serrated leaves. All have lilac-purple flowers. The cultivar 'Albus' has white flowers while 'Purple Haze' has rich purple flowers.
Penstemon lyallii is a bit unusual for the group as plants are herbaceous rather than evergreen. Plants produce upright stems to 60 cm from a thick rootstock. The leaves are long and narrow and flowers are lavender-pink. They hail from Idaho. This uncommon species can only be grown from seed.
Penstemon montanus, like P. lyallii, is also herbaceous, but a much smaller plant, reaching only 20 cm. In the wilds of Montana and Idaho, they grow on north slopes. In the garden, they seem to be challenging which is why they are uncommon in the trade. The flowers are lavender-purple in the varietymontanus while the variety idahoensis has light blue flowers.
The last two species P. newberryi and P. rupicola, both have reddish-violet flowers making them easy to distinguish from the others in the group. P. newberryi reaches 20-30 cm and is native to the Coast and Cascade Ranges of California and southern Oregon. While among the most beautiful, they are also tricky to grow since like so many Californian native plants, they need to be kept dry in summer. Thankfully, the smaller P. rupicola is much more amenable to culture in wet-summer regions. This last species is among the smallest, reaching just 5-10 cm and has lovely bluish-grey foliage and oversized flowers. Its diminutive size makes it ideal for alpine troughs. In the wild, they grow among the Cascades of northern California, north to central Washington. The cultivar 'Albus' is white while 'Diamond Lake' is clear pink.
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My daughter turned thirteen in April, making her an official teenager—oh, sweet love! We still get along fairly well in the mom/daughter dynamic of life; I just wish she'd try harder to be more positive. The easy giggles she used to have are being replaced by what I consider to be a cankering pessimism.
I get it: life is hard, kids are mean, and things don't always go your way, but focusing on the negative isn't going to make your life better. Allowing pain, sorrow, anger, to consume your thoughts creates an exhausting vortex inside that feeds on your self-worth. The only way to combat the negative is by activity seeking to see the positive around you. Yes, even in your darkest moment, you can find something positive to be grateful for. It takes practice, especially if you've been feeding the negative monster for a long time, but it's worth the effort. Where negative feelings drain us, positive ones energize. Who couldn't use an extra shot of energy to face life every day?


MUMPS 1995 was prepared by the MUMPS Development Committee (MDC) for acceptance by itself, based on its extensions to the 1990 standard. The MDC approved it on 20 June 1993 as MDC X11.1-1993. It was the fourth MUMPS standard adopted by the MDC. MDC X11.1-1993 might be thought of as the first edition of MUMPS 1995.
The second edition was prepared by the MDC for acceptance by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), based closely on the MDC's first edition. It was approved by ANSI on 8 December 1995 as ANSI X11.1-1995, American National Standard for Information Systems—Programming Languages—M. It was the fourth version of standard MUMPS accepted by ANSI, and it replaced ANSI X11.1-1990, American National Standard for Information Systems—Programming Languages—MUMPS to become the current ANS MUMPS standard. ANSI X11.1-1995 was published by the M Technology Association (MTA), formerly known as the MUMPS Users Group (MUG), and was active until 1 January 2002, when MTA (the MDC secretariat) closed its doors and ANSI X11.1-1995 was administratively withdrawn by ANSI.
The third edition was prepared by a joint technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), based on the second edition of MUMPS 1995. The committee was Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information Technology, Subcommittee 22, Programming Languages, Their Environments, and System Software Interfaces. Their edition was approved by ISO/IEC on 21 April 1998 and reaffirmed on 6 January 2005 as ISO/IEC 11756:1999, Information Technology—Programming Languages—M. It is the second version of standard MUMPS accepted by ISO/IEC, and it replaced ISO/IEC 11756:1992, Information Technology—Programming Languages—MUMPS to become the current ISO/IEC MUMPS standard. ISO/IEC 11756:1999 is still active and published by ISO/IEC.
MUMPS 1995 was designed and set into type from 1993 to 1994 by John Godfrey of Cornell University, the MDC's standard editor at the time. He oversaw the significant reorganization and overhaul of MUMPS 1990 required to create MUMPS 1995. He set the document in Ascender's Arial and Courier New and Word Perfect's WP Box Drawing and WP Math A, using Word Perfect on Intel machines.
After ANSI adopted MUMPS 1995 as ANSI X11.1-1995, Mr. Godfrey asked for a well deserved retirement from editing the standard, and I volunteered to serve as the MDC's new standard editor for the development of the Millennium Standard. From 1995 to 1999, I developed fifteen incremental versions of the standard, each time adding the newly approved MDC Type A extensions. Unfortunately, my work - and the work of the entire MDC - was cut short in 1999 by a combination of events.
First, during the late 1990s VA pulled its participation from the MTA, the MDC's secretariat organization, and set up a competing annual conference which it scheduled for the same time as the MTA annual meeting three years running, each year shifting the timing of the VA conference to coincide with the MTA conference, even though MTA each year had moved its own conference to try to stay out of the way of the new VA conference.
Second, VA pulled its funding for MDC, arguing that in a year or two VA would have replaced all its MUMPS software with modern, commercial, off the shelf (COTS) replacements, so it no longer had any compelling interest in supporting the future of MUMPS. None of VA's technical experts at the time agreed with that action or the prediction used to justify it, and history has proven it utterly false. It did incalculable damage to the MUMPS community and to VA's own interests without accruing any of the benefits VA upper management had expected from it.
In the short term, pulling the MDC's funding propelled the MDC into an involuntary organizational hibernation, and withdrawing from and competing with MTA drove MTA out of business. Since MTA was MDC's secretariat, that put the MDC into an organizational limbo that contributed directly to ANSI withdrawing the MUMPS standard in 2002. For those of us who understood the importance of the MUMPS standard to VA and so many others, it created a Gordian Knot we've been working for a decade and a half to untie.
Just over a year into that hibernation, in 2001, past MDC chair Ed de Moel offered to finish updating the revised MUMPS Draft Standard to add the remaining MDC Type A Extensions, which resulted in the production of a document very much like what the MDC would have approved as its next standard in 2000. That document remains an important reference for all ongoing MUMPS-standardization work, but it will not be the basis for MUMPS 2015, for reasons I will now explain.
From 2001 to 2006 I was largely distracted by the work involved in launching and running WorldVistA, and my board wasn't interested in re-launching the MDC, so little progress was made on this front. However, I was clear throughout that time, as MDC vice-chair and working with MDC chair Art Smith, that I intended to untie this Gordian Knot and get MUMPS standardization back underway one way or another. Art and I and several other MDC members together explored the legal situation as well as our standardization options.
We also did a post-mortem on MDC's first twenty-six years to evaluate what worked and what didn't. We spent many days discussing the shifts in the MUMPS industry and what that meant for the next MUMPS standard. It became clear that the 1995 suite of standards had been so aggressive as to daunt the MUMPS implementors, none of whom has yet fully implemented the complete 1995 suite. Therefore, the next standard has to be minimalist, aimed at relaxing the portability constraints, fixing bugs, adding a few minor and inevitable syntax improvements, and otherwise mainly focusing on exercising the new organization on an easy upgrade the implementors will accept. This means the draft Millennium Standard Ed de Moel created, which was beautifully done and is an accurate representation of the MDC's intentions as of its last meeting in 1999, cannot be the basis of the next standard, though it will always remain a crucial reference.
Armed with these plans, at the end of 2006 I left WorldVistA to found the VISTA Expertise Network. In 2007 I cut a personal contract to pay Art Smith to resume his MDC chair duties, to assist in the process of designing a new MDC constitution and new procedures we could use for the relaunch. I converted John Godfrey's Word Perfect MDC X11.1-1993 to MS Word format and thence to Open Office. As is usually the case with such format conversions, it was imperfect, so from 2008 to 2010 I stripped his document down to the bones and built it back up using clean, consistent styles, tables, indexes, and so on. This gave us a fourth edition of MUMPS 1995, never to be published, that we are using as the baseline for creating MUMPS 201f.
In the meantime, from 2010 to the present, we've had various people working on scanning in the hard-copy MDC Type A extensions, OCRing them, and cleaning up the scanning errors. Thanks to Jennifer Hackett, Kathy Ice, and Saahithi Madiraju, we now have a clean library of MDC Type A extensions in electronic format, ready to apply to our new Revised MUMPS Draft Standard (RMDS) to incrementally create MUMPS 2015. Out of the 106 extensions the MDC approved, we only have eight left to convert to electronic format, so while these last few are being converted, we're starting work on MUMPS 2015 itself.
Following the advice of our MDC veterans about making the next standard minimally invasive, we've separated out 33 extensions as too invasive for MUMPS 2015, to be postponed for a future MUMPS standard, or in some cases given the shifts in computer science since 1999 to be redone in a different way. 1 turned out to be a policy rather than an extension. 7 turned out to be changes to other MUMPS standards, such as the M Windowing API, Open MUMPS Interconnect, and so on, so they do not apply to the new language standard. And 1, which is yet to be converted, has not yet been triaged to determine whether it can be included. So far, that leaves 64 extensions that are definitely going into MUMPS 2015.
These 64 extensions, which I'll be writing about in the days and weeks ahead, fall into four categories. 48 count as clarifications and corrections, precisely the kinds of things the implementors will appreciate rather than resist. 1 ($REFERENCE) is a promised extension that was intended to be in the 1995 standard; everyone implemented it, but it narrowly missed inclusion due to a procedural rule. 3 extend the portability limits, which all the implementors have already done and which all the programmers want. 12 are what I call inevitable extensions, which make so much sense that (a) most people don't even know they're not standard MUMPS yet, (b) most implementors have already implemented, and (c) the remaining implementors will find easy to implement.
In addition to these 64 extensions, MUMPS 2015 needs to include another 4 extensions that do not yet exist. Generally, I am restricting this standard entirely to extensions the MDC already vetted with its meticulous, Roberts Rules of Order processes. But these 4 extensions are exceptions everyone will understand.
First, the 3 portability extensions approved by MDC raised the limits to numbers that in 1999 felt positively spacious, but computer science has come a long way since 1999; every vendor has implemented more spacious limits than these, and every programmer wants that additional space, so we are going to very, very carefully test out our new MDC processes on the creation of replacement extensions for these three.
Second, all the young Mumpsters insist on lowercase names in MUMPS being portable, and except for implementations on the soon-to-be-defunct VMS operating system, all extant implementations already allow this. So this will be the fourth new extension created for MUMPS 2015.
Third, and finally, all modern computers support more than the ASCII character set, so MUMPS 2015 must also. At a minimum, we must create an extension to support UTF-8, which is pretty much the de facto standard, but we may need to support others as well. We're going to query and work with our veteran MDC internationalization members to come up with the very minimal set needed to come to par with most computers today and leave the advanced work for a future MUMPS standard.
As far as we know at this time, those will be the only new extensions allowed into MUMPS 2015. For a variety of strategic reasons, it is essential that this new MUMPS standard be designed around as few changes as possible, and those overwhelmingly restricted to the MDC's past and already approved work, to focus on continuity from the work in 1999 and on an easy-to-approve and easy-to-implement standard.
With that as background, I'm writing today to let you know that a for-now-anonymous volunteer I trust has agreed to become our new standard editor and to begin the process of applying the selected extensions to the RMDS. Our now standard editor has also agreed to be the new MDC document custodian, so we can resume the careful assignment of document numbers for new MDC documents. Given the enormous amount of work that has gone into getting the MDC to this point, I expect this work to proceed swiftly.
We will regularly update this site with our progress, and we invite community participation, discussion, and review. And we will definitely need the help of previous MDC members in putting together the final five or so new extensions to help create a suitable MUMPS 2015.
If you're up for it, Ray, we would love to have your help. We're going to need MUMPS programmers to help Larry Landis update the MUMPS Validation Suite, and we're going to need C programmers to help him update the MUMPS Reference Implementation (MUMPS V1), which of course you're the most qualified for of any of us.
Help with MUMPS V1 sounds good. On the validation suite; from memory, it's real spaghetti code.
The situation in the world with MUMPS catastrophic. Small improvement in the situation is not corrected. It is necessary to develop a new standard in advanced technologies. Retaining ideas MUMPS. It is not necessary to look to distributors MUMPS. Is a standard, there will be a realization. I am developing an implementation of the language proposed by me MSH in C language. No fundamental difficulties have arisen.But language is not enough to develop a translator. Necessary development environment. Difficulties along the way a lot. But I will bring this matter to an end.
Is there any updates on MUMPS 2015? I know we are only a third of the way through the year but I needed to ask. I'm currently diving into MUMPS 1995 but just so I can see what's coming up in the pipeline so I can adjust my expectations and approach accordingly when learning MUMPS.


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About Our Camp
Don is a lifelong naturalist, outdoor educator, and psychotherapist, focusing on the unique growth and development of everyone. In 1974, Don founded Nature Camps, Inc. (formerly Don Webb Nature Camp or DWNC). Don's Quaker background, his love for nature, and his deep regard for children of all learning styles have led to the creation of nurturing and joyful learning environments for children and families from Vermont to Maryland.
Don holds Master degrees from Antioch University New England: MA, Master in the Art of Teaching (MAT); MA, Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). He is a graduate of Rutgers University, The New York Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, and The New York Focusing Institute.
Don was in VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) in Norfolk, VA; later working as an Appalachian Volunteer - Community Organizer and as a Teaching Principal in a one-room schoolhouse in Eastern Appalachia (Kentucky). He taught on the elementary, secondary, and college levels for forty-eight years. Don founded Whispering Oaks School, Inc. a one-room country schoolhouse in White Hall, Maryland. Locally, he taught at the Gilman School, The Jemicy School, Whispering Oaks, Inc. and Havre de Grace High School.
Don serves on the Board of Directors for Spoutwood Farm Center, currently as Chairman. He has previously served on the regional and national Board of Directors for the Association for Experiential Education (AEE). He is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and is a Certified Focusing Psychotherapist.
Jen Goff
Jen has been part of the Nature Camps' family since 1999. She is looking forward to time at Nature Camps this summer with her little ones who are finally old enough to participate as Campers.
As a former middle school and high school teacher of Biology and Environmental Science, Jen has the pleasure of being home with her twins, Abbey and Andy. Although her hiking, backpacking, and kayaking interests have been put on temporary hold, she and her husband are having a wonderful time traveling and sharing the joys of nature and farm life with their children. They spend their days playing outside, swimming or skiing, gardening, and exploring their creek, meadow, and woodland.
When Jen gets a break from the twins, she volunteers on the executive board for the Lancaster County Mothers of Multiples Club.
Meg Hamilton
Managing Director & Medical Coordinator
Meg Hamilton is thrilled to be returning for another season at Nature Camps, where she has spent many summers as a teen, counselor, and Director. After receiving a Master's degree in teaching from Towson University, Meg taught at Garrison Forest School for four years. She then served as Education Director at Spoutwood Farm Center, gaining further experience in experiential education. Meg recently completed a post-graduate certificate in Educational Leadership and Administration at Loyola University Maryland and is looking forward to applying her new leadership skills and experience at Nature Camps. This fall, Meg will begin a Doctor of Education degree at Johns Hopkins University. When not frolicking in the woods or raising small humans (Penny, 6 and Charley, 3) Meg can be found teaching English to teenage-sized humans at Hereford High School.
Alida Schott
Counselor, Explorer Coordinator
Alida Schott grew up at Nature Camps and is excited to return for a fourth summer on staff and second summer as the Explorer program coordinator. She is a rising sophomore at UMBC and is studying physics and Spanish. She looks forward to another summer of getting muddy, identifying ferns, and hiking with kids. Nature Camps is the highlight of her summers, and she hopes to pass that enthusiasm on to new campers.
Molly Tunis
Counselor, Teen Adventure Coordinator
Molly Tunis is so excited to return to Nature Camps this summer for her sixteenth summer at NC and second summer as Teen Adventure coordinator! In the fall, Molly will begin her fourth year at Tufts University, where she majors in American Studies and minors in Studio Art. At Tufts, she is involved in student activism and cooperative living, and her puppy Clover also keeps her very busy. At Nature Camps, Molly loves nature crafts, singing silly songs, all-day (and all-week) hikes, and Funland. She can't wait for the summer to start!
Erin Beach
Erin is psyched to be returning to Nature Camps for her 12th summer! She can't wait to be at home in the woods once again, going on awesome adventures with campers. Erin is graduating this spring from Washington College where she is majoring in environmental studies and minoring in Chinese, psychology, and sociology.
Jacob Hamidi
Counselor, Pool Director
Jacob Hamidi is thrilled to be returning to Nature Camps inc. for the Summer 2019 season. This will be his eighth year on staff, his fifth as pool operator, and his eighteenth Summer overall in the NC woods. Jacob enjoys digging in the dirt, splashing in the stream, and rambling through the forest, and takes particular delight in sharing these experiences with folks of all ages. During this past year he has worked as an outdoor educator at NorthBay Adventure Camp in Cecil County, MD, where he mentored middle schoolers in environmental science and character concepts.
Jacob graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 with a B.A. in behavioral biology and cognitive science, and will attend Oxford University in the Fall to study cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. He plays the mandolin, violin, reed organ, autoharp, recorder, accordion, didgeridoo, and bass handbells.
Tucker Hubner
Junior Counselor
Tucker Hubner is a Sophomore at Dulaney High school and will be joining the Nature Camps staff for the first time this year. Tucker has been attending Nature Camps for 10 years now and he knows the space and environment very well. Over his years at Nature Camps, he has learned to enjoy and experience nature with others. He values the numerous friends he has made through Nature Camps and the great experiences he's shared with them. He looks forward to sharing his knowledge of nature and the outdoors and hopes that will lead others to love it as much as he does.
Sam Langer
Sam is excited to return for his 13th year at nature camps and his second year as a counselor. He credits Nature Camp for instilling in him a love of nature and the outdoors.
He is a rising college sophomore architecture major at Syracuse University and plans to study landscape architecture. As a member of SUOC, Cuse's outdoor adventure club, Sam is excited to get back out into nature. Sam is also a musician, he plays the bass and ukulele.
Sam looks forward to passing the wonder and magic of Nature Camp to a new generation.
Nico Mokhiber
Nico Mokhiber is finishing his junior year at Warren Wilson College majoring in Psychology. For the last two summers, Nico has been a camp Counselor at Wind Dance Farm Earth and Education Center in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Nico likes to go on long walks in nature, practice identifying different types of trees and plants, go on backpacking trips with friends and family, and teach back-country skills and techniques to help build a better understanding how we can benefit from nature.
Hannah Saunders
Parent Volunteer
Seven summers ago, Hannah Saunders began learning at Nature Camps how wild and wonderful a thing outdoor education is. She now runs her own nature discovery program in New York City called Second Nature Outdoors. Hannah looks forward to spending time in familiar places, working with campers new and old, listening to the leaves rustle and frogs sing, and sharing the whole experience with her 3-year-old Isabelle who has grown so much each summer at Nature Camps.
Jonah Zang
This will be Jonah Zang's 14th consecutive summer at NC, and his third as a counselor. He did the awesome teen adventure program for three years, hiking the Appalachian trail, living on Spoutwood farm, and biking along the C&O canal. He knows the woods in and out, and is excited about returning to NC this summer.
When not hiking, biking, and camping out all summer, Jonah will be starting college next fall. He loves archaeology, rock climbing, and travel. Jonah has been lucky enough to travel abroad and spend a week as an archaeology intern at James Madison's estate.
There's so much Jonah loves about Nature Camps, like the natural environment, the relaxed atmosphere, and the people there. He can't wait for summer to begin.
David Heroy
As a kid, David spent 9 summers at Nature Camps while growing up in Baltimore. He now teaches Environmental Science and Outdoor Leadership at Headwaters in Austin, TX. David wanted to be a professor for many years, and did international research, but ultimately found his true calling in teaching and being with the youth. After Nature Camps, David attended NOLS, Outward Bound, and has led backpacking trips in California. David earned his BA from Colgate, MS from William and Mary, and PhD from Rice. After graduate school, he founded Blackwood Nature Camp in Hempstead, Texas, which received a national award and has taught in Austin at Parkside Montessori and Lee College in Baytown, TX. In 2003, David met a beautiful architect at a swing dance class, and they got married and now have two girls, Cleo and Marion, who've spend the last two summers with him at Nature Camps.
17433 Big Falls Rd
Monkton, MD 21111
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Nature Camps, Inc., P.O. Box 418
Email: naturecampsinc@gmail.com
Camp: 410-343-0223
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Don Webb, director: 410-935-1545
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I only went for a walk and finally concluded to stay out 'til sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir


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Geschichte
Birth Control formierte sich im August 1966 aus zwei Berliner Bands, den Earls und den Gents. Gründungsmitglieder waren Bernd Koschmidder, Reinhold Sobotta, Rolf Gurra, Fritz Gröger, Klaus Orso, Reiner Borchert und Hugo Egon Balder. Ende der 1960er Jahre war die Geburtenkontrolle wegen der päpstlichen Enzyklika Humanae Vitae ein viel diskutiertes Thema. Den englischen Ausdruck Birth Control hörten die Bandmitglieder beim Radiosender AFN und entschlossen sich, ihn zum Bandnamen zu machen.

Birth Control profilierte sich zunächst als Coverband, hauptsächlich mit Stücken von Julie Driscoll. Nach ersten personellen Veränderungen – Balder und Orso verließen die Band, Bernd Noske kam dazu – nahm die Band Anfang 1969 ein dreimonatiges Gastspiel in einem Beiruter Nachtclub wahr. Gitarrist Borchert blieb im Libanon, Bruno Frenzel ersetzte ihn. Nachdem auch Fritz Gröger im Spätsommer ausgeschieden war, begann die Band erste eigene Stücke einzuspielen. Die Band tingelte anschließend durch Deutschland. In Wien wurde die erste Single produziert, Ende des Jahres stieg Rolf Gurra aus, und die erste LP Birth Control erschien. Die Gruppe wurde als einzige deutsche Band zum Super Concert 70 in die Deutschlandhalle in Berlin eingeladen, auf dem auch Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After und Procol Harum spielten. Zudem wirkte die Band in zwei Filmen mit, in einer Vampirkomödie und in Ich – ein Groupie (1970) mit Ingrid Steeger.

Birth Controls erste LP erschien in ungewöhnlichem Cover: einer runden Dose, die einer Antibabypillen-Schachtel gleicht. Es folgten Tourneen im deutschsprachigen Raum und 1971 das zweite Album. Auf dem Cover war der Papst mit einem ein Baby fressenden Monster abgebildet. Das englische Cover sorgte für einen Verpackungsstreik, denn auf ihm waren Kondome abgebildet. Zugleich war das aber Publicity, so dass Birth Control zu Konzerten nach England eingeladen wurden und so als erste deutsche Band im  Londoner Marquee Club auftraten. Auf England folgte ein Konzert in Cannes.

1972 wurde zum Jahr des Durchbruchs für Birth Control: Das Album Hoodoo Man erschien bei der neuen Plattenfirma CBS. Die Band tourte durch Europa und war Hauptact auf Veranstaltungen. Der größte Erfolg war Gamma Ray, aus eigener Sicht "der Kultsong der Kraut-Rock Ära überhaupt". Der Titel verkaufte sich nach Bandangaben weit über 300.000 Mal. Zu seiner späteren Popularität in der Techno-Szene merkte die Band an, dass es "dahingestellt bleibt, ob dies als Kompliment zu werten ist". Es folgten weitere Platten und Tourneen. Ende der 1970er Jahre sanken die Verkaufszahlen. Horst Stachelhaus ersetzte 1977 Föller, Manni von Bohr (wie Stachelhaus von der Band Message) sorgte als Schlagzeuger dafür, dass Noske sich mehr um den Gesang kümmern konnte. 1983 starb Bruno Frenzel an den Spätfolgen eines Stromschlags, die Band verlor damit ihren Hauptkomponisten und -texter. Noske löste die Band auf.

1993 vereinte Noske alte und neue Mitglieder und belebte Birth Control wieder. Neben alten Aufnahmen, die nach und nach als CDs erschienen, produzierte die Band auch neue Alben, hatte aber vor allem dank der alten Hits wieder großen Zulauf. Xaver "Fischfinger" Fischer (Keyboards) steuerte die meisten Songs zum Album Jungle Life bei. Nach dem Tod von Horst Stachelhaus bestand die Besetzung bis 2014 aus Bernd Noske (Schlagzeug, Gesang), Peter Engelhardt (ab 2011 Martin "Ludi" Ettrich) (Gitarre), Sascha Kühn (Keyboard) und Hannes Vesper (Bass).

Nachdem Bernd Noske am 18. Februar 2014 überraschend verstarb, gab die Band ihre Auflösung bekannt. Die verbleibende letzte Besetzung (Kühn, Ettrich und Vesper) plante, im Anschluss an zwei in Gedenken an Noske angesetzte Konzerte weiterhin aufzutreten, dann jedoch in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ehemaligen Bassisten Peter Föller und unter dem Namen Rebirth. Die Auflösung der Gruppe und die Namensänderung wurden im Laufe des Jahres 2014 widerrufen.

Am 5. Januar 2016 gab die Band auf ihrer Website bekannt, dass sie wieder aktiv wird. Mit dabei sind neben der letzten Besetzung die ehemaligen Mitglieder Peter Föller (Gesang) und Manfred von Bohr (Schlagzeug). Die Veröffentlichung des Albums Here and Now, dem letzten mit Bernd Noske, erfolgte am 4. März 2016. Gleichzeitig nannte die Gruppe erstmals seit Noskes Tod neue Live-Termine. Diese ersten Konzerte fanden ab dem Jahr 2018 wieder statt, bis zu einer Zwangspause durch die Covid-19-Pandemie im Jahr 2020. Im Jahr 2021 setzte die Band ihre Tournee wieder fort, auch verknüpft mit einer Ankündigung, dass für 2022 die Neuveröffentlichung eines Albums geplant sei.

Diskografie

Studioalben
 1970: Birth Control
 1971: Operation
 1972: Hoodoo Man
 1973: Rebirth
 1975: Plastic People
 1976: Backdoor Possibilities
 1977: Increase
 1978: Titanic
 1980: Count on Dracula
 1981: Deal Done at Night
 1982: Bäng
 1995: Two Worlds
 1996: Jungle Life
 1999: Getting There
 2003: Alsatian
 2016: Here and Now
 2022: Open Up

Live-Alben
 1974: Live
 1979: Live 79
 1994: Condomium (Live)
 2005: 35th Anniversary – Live @ Rockpalast

DVDs
 Birth Control – History: Krautrock Classics, 2005, 135 Min.
 Birth Control – Live Harmonie Bonn, 2018, 115 Min.

Weblinks

 birthcontrol.de
 Fanclub und Bandgeschichte
 Birth Control im German Rock Lexikon

Einzelnachweise

Rockband
Deutsche Band
Krautrockband


There are more than a hundred nationalities living in Russia. Indigenous peoples in Russia are now officially considered as 30 small-numbered nations which historically are settled in the huge territory of the North from the White sea in the west up to Bering Strait in the east. Each northern ethnic group has it own history and problems. They vary much from each other by number type of settlement, presence or absence of their own autonomy, ethnicity, geographical and climate condition, language etc. They practice a wide range of economic activities such as hunters, reindeer breeders, fishermen and gatherers. In their recent past their subsistence economies provided them with clothing, food and transportation. The social organization of the Northern indigenous peoples was based on kinship, which established the rights, duties, and responsibilities of all group members for each other. Social and economic relationships and belief systems were integrated into a worldview in which relationships between the land, the natural resources, and the human groups were inseparable. Their traditional education was based on traditional knowledge and was transmitted from generation to generation.


How much control can you afford to relinquish? It is essential you decide on this early on , as it is very easy to accept an investors terms when they are offering you a much needed cash injection. What level of control do you need to retain to be able to operate your business on a day-to-day basis? Loss of control in your business is one of the biggest disadvantages involved in selling equity stakes. There are situations where the founders of a business who invested years of their life into the company, are voted out of the company by investors or driven out due to change. Be careful to consider how involved you wish to remain and if it is of concern ,ensure the agreements protect your position and/or look at non-equity investment options.
Company House in order. Investors will inspect your Company documents before making a decision on whether to invest so are they up to date, structured correctly & concise. Are there available shares to sell , do your articles permit a sale , have you allocated shares correctly? Are your accounts available if not you should secure draft accounts or references? Also be careful of making tax efficient decisions when filing accounts, as sometimes a greater tax hit and more favorable accounts, is required to secure an investor. They may also want to know if your IP is registered/valued.
Your own house in order. Investors will be impressed and comforted if you have invested in legal paperwork for the security of the business. This includes employment contracts, terms and conditions with existing supplies and clients, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements , shareholders agreement with existing founders and investors as well as directors agreements. These should be up to date, transparent and available for an investor to inspect.
A credible business plan. Investors are put off by long technical documents; provide a concise summary on what your product/service is, how its performing and how it is to be marketed; Investors want to know see that they will generate a return & that you have a risk management strategy. You will need to prove your business is compliant with all legal and accounting requirements so ensure financial controls are in place.
Preparation is key. know your potential investors and whether they actually have the experience and finances to invest or understand what their objectives are. Allow them time to make a decision but keep in contact during this process, updating them with positive developments and news.
Experience goes further. Investors with experience have so much more to offer, they have contacts, knowledge and support which they will want to provide to your business. They want to see you succeed! If however, you don't want to relinquish equity consider alternative investors such as entrepreneurs looking for a visa or other debt finance options.
Understand your market. Make sure you can demonstrate a knowledge of the market that your product/service is in and concisely communicate this to your investors. Investors will be holding confidence in you that you know your competitors and will want to know how you will respond to competition to put your business ahead. This is where you will need to demonstrate IP protection , non-complete clauses and confidentiality arrangements are in place and that the markets reaching into have been carefully selected.
Your investor's point of view. Anticipate what they are likely to ask and think about certain scenarios. Make sure their potential questions will not expose flaws in your business strategy.
Exit plan. Ultimately investors want to know how they will get a return on their investment, make it clear within your business plan what your exit strategy is. Debt finance will need a commitment.
What alternatives are there to large equity investment? Those wishing to expand their business have new exciting opportunities by means of debt financing , lower interest rate loans, EIS/SEIS, government reliefs, immigration investment and corporate bonds. Corporate Bonds: this is long-term financing where no personal guarantees are required and repayment terms and interest amounts can be agreed between the parties. These bonds are fixed interest for fixed terms, so afford investors continuity and stability like no other offers. Foreign investment continues to be attracted to the UK for Visas some purely invest in bonds other directly into the company if employed as a director.
Brexit: will this effect you?
Start-ups in the technology sector in the UK and especially London are thriving. They have a sound platform to surpass enterprises in other countries. This firm continues to be part of successful investment rounds, with Asian and Russian investors seeking to plough even more investment than before into the UK. This quarter alone ARM Holdings, a Cambridge based technology company, will reportedly be acquired for in the region of £24billion by a Japanese company, Softbank.
If interest rates go down (which is being predicted) it will assist company start-up loans.
Should you be doing anything now?
I have heard lawyers promoting that companies review their contracts now, check their employee's status and start looking at tax and trade agreements, but in reality none of this can be adapted until the regulations/agreements with the EU change.
What you could be doing is look at the advantages open to you right now, cheaper share prices, cheaper business purchase prices, cheaper property – along with cheaper loans to secure these. Overseas investment is coming in from Asia and Russia who see opportunities to start building, securing these relationships. Stay calm and look at the potential opportunities and adapt your business and model around this.


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Ex-CIA director hired by Turkey
The former CIA director Porter Goss will serve Turkey with counsels.
Goss registered through Dickstein Shapiro law firm which is his new employer. The company has long-lasting relations with the Turkish government in its turn.
The Turkish government managed to hire Porter Goss under a form filed with the US Department of Justice. The form, filed pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, was published by The Intercept, an online publication that focuses on reporting on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
As the form states, Goss will "provide counsel in connection with the extension amid strengthening of the Turkish-American relationship in a number of key areas that are the subject of debate in Congress, including trade, energy security, counter-terrorism efforts and efforts to build regional stability in the broader Middle East and Europe; educate Members of Congress and the Administration on issues of importance to Turkey; notify Turkey of any action in Congress or the Executive Branch on issues of importance to Turkey; and prepare analyses of developments in Congress and the Executive Branch on issues of importance to Turkey."
Goss was the CIA director during the G.W. Bush presidence from 2004 to 2006.
Read more on the subject here


Romio Shrestha portrays the main Tibetan Buddhist Goddesses (and a few Hindu ones) in dazzling colors that are meditative at the same time. It's a feast on the eyes well combined with explanations.
Included are 9 cut out cards for quick reference of which goddess is what.
This Goddess is the great mother protectress from danger.
Some of the most beautiful images in this gallery of Buddhist goddesses are the radiant Taras. This one is a white radiant Tara.
White Tara is the symbol of truth and purity and her help is similarly kind and pure.
Another beautiful radiant Tara. This one is nearly transparent in her radiance, which is symbolic for the fact that whatever we picture of the Goddess, it's never quite what She is.
Buddhism in Nepal, where Romio Shrestha is from, is a mix of Hinduism and Buddhism. One aspect of this fusion is the worship of gods and goddesses that are usually seen as Hindu, like Kali.
This Goddess stands for necessary destruction.
The celestial gallery started with depictions of Tibetan and Nepalese mandalas by Romio Shrestha and his team of Tibetan Buddhist monks. Though based on the Tibetan Buddhist and Nepalese art tradition, their rendition is distinctly modern.
The follow up volume is what this review is about, focusing on Buddhist Goddesses.
Romio Bahadur Shrestha was born into a Newar family in Katmandu in Nepal. When he was five years old, two Tibetan Buddhist monks arrived at the door. Romio, they said, was the seventeenth reincarnation of the master Tibetan T'angka painter Arniko and they gave to him a stock of valuable art materials, explaining that he would, one day, form his own school of painting.
Romio Shrestha is a modern master of the Indo-Nepali-Tibetan Buddhist traditions of enlightenment art. Romio Shrestha's T'angka's can be found in many of the great collections of the world including the British Museum, The Victoria Albert Museum, The Buchheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History New York, Newark Museum New Jersey, National Museum Moscow, The Chester Beatty Library Dublin, The Voelkerkunde Museum Zurich as well as many private collections around the globe.
Preserving and innovating the ancient wisdom and traditional craftsmanship, Romio founded a school in Nepal in 1968 and now into the 21st century he continues to bring the world of T'angka on into the future.


Falling in love is easy. Staying in love, that's the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?
In The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner starting today.


Wednesday night the Indians split a pair of Cactus League decision, topping the Los Angeles Angels, 4-2, at Goodyear Ballpark while taking a 13-0 loss across town against the San Francisco Giants at Scottsdale Stadium.
In Goodyear, the Tribe's victory was powered by the bat of left fielder Jordan Luplow, who was 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBI.
Carlos Carrasco was solid, going 5.2 innings, allowing two runs on six hits with a walk and eight strikeouts.
Luplow connected for a two-run homer in the 1st inning and sealed the game with an RBI-single in the 6th after Carlos Santana (hitting .372 this spring) doubled to open the frame.
Second basemen Max Moroff added an RBI-double in the three-run 1st. Right-handers Neil Ramirez, Dan Otero, Adam Cimber and Michael Peoples followed Carrasco with scoreless relief outings.
Over in Scottsdale, Giants southpaw and former Indian Drew Pomeranz shutdown the Indians, going five innings of no-hit ball in the Giants runaway 13-0 win.
Pomeranz walked four and struck out eight Indians in the win for the Giants.
Leonys Martin picked up the Tribe's first hit with a one-out single in the sixth. Jake Bauers, Roberto Perez and Connor Marabell also collected base knocks.
The Indians lost second basemen Jason Kipnis in the bottom of the first when he left the game for precautionary reasons with right calf tightness.
San Francisco held a 9-0 advantage by the end of the 4th and pushed the lead to 13-0 at the close of the 6th, as Adam Plutko struggled, taking the loss (3.2IP, 10H, 9R-ER, BB, 3SO, HR).
Today the Tribe will take on the Texas Rangers in Surprise, AZ at 4:05pm Cleveland time.
Mike Clevinger will make his fourth appearance/third start of the spring against lefty Drew Smyly for the Rangers.
The game will be televised on SportsTime Ohio and aired on WMMS 110.7 FM, the Indians Radio Network and Indians.com.


State and Kent County health officials are asking people not to eat fish from some western Michigan ponds due to elevated levels of industrial chemical contaminants.
The advisory was issued Friday after elevated levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate were found in surface water from ponds near the Boulder Creek development in Belmont, northeast of Grand Rapids.
Officials say it's reasonable to expect fish in the ponds also may have elevated levels.
Officials also are recommending that people using the Thornapple River in Kent County avoid swallowing foam on the water. Water samples taken downstream of the Cascade Dam show high levels of chemical contaminants.
The advisories are part of an effort by the state to deal with emerging contaminants — perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — known as PFAS.
The chemicals were long used in firefighting, waterproofing, carpeting and other products.


Back by popular demand, the festival presents a special screening of CLOUDY SUNDAY. During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Jewish community escalate.
Director Manoussos Manoussakis is expected to attend this screening. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Department at San Francisco State University.


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CBRN grant recipient The Beauty Barn finds beauty amid COVID-19 pandemic
As part of its Canadian Business Resilience Network campaign, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, through the generosity of Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), provided 62 small Canadian businesses with $10,000 grants to help their recovery efforts during these unprecedented times. What follows the story of The Beauty Barn in Brantford, Ontario, one of the businesses that received a grant.
"Being out in the country has its own set of challenges to get your business noticed when it's not in a highly trafficked area like most spas," said owner Corrie Gallant. "I think we have done a good job via social media and have community support. We have had a successful start. But all that came to a halt when COVID-19 shut us down for just about three months."
The Beauty Barn is a country spa, salon and boutique that is based in a renovated barn. The business offers their services to immune-compromised individuals as well as the general public. As the salon and spa industry relies on face-to-face and full contact services, The Beauty Barn was hit hard and had to close their doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We chose to close the spa once we were informed of the health concerns and also because we have high-risk employees (pregnant women, mothers of young children and those taking care of aging or ill parents)," explained Gallant. "The safety of our staff and clients was our number one priority and we were the first spa in our town to close."
Closing their doors has led to many financial burdens as the spa offers laser and facial services that require expensive machinery leased by The Beauty Barn; continuing to make payments has been tough.
"Being in the industry as a second-generation spa owner the one thing I never waver on is keeping our standards high," said Gallant. "Even knowing we made the safest decision it was a hard decision because of the financial risk."
As Ontario enters new phases of reopening, The Beauty Barn has had to deal with financial expenses that are coupled with reopening protocols. This includes sourcing and securing such items as personal protective equipment.
"We will be opening the doors to our immune-compromised clients first," explained Gallant. "We've decided to do this before opening to the public to give those clients a chance to receive services in the cleanest and safest environment."
The Beauty Barn is looking to use the CBRN grant to invest in an outdoor bunkie space where private services can be done one-on-one in a space that can be easily disinfected and ensure that clients are kept safe.
"With a bunkie not only could we provide services, we could also expand on the small events that we already host, eventually moving into overnight accommodations as a unique spa retreat and glamping opportunity," said Gallant. "The goal would be to give our clients a variety of private spaces to enjoy their services and/or to offer a wellness style event that would be good for their mind and body!"
The Beauty Barn has been supporting local businesses and their community through hosting one of their main events called "Awakening to Better Beauty". This event takes place annually and is free for women going through cancer treatments.
"The women are nominated by the nurses in the Brant Community Healthcare system oncology department," said Gallant. "We have over 35 volunteers from other local businesses and the women have lunch provided, receive hair, make-up and massage services. Volunteer photographers and videographers capture the women's day and family photos. Each woman is also treated to gift bags filled with donations from likeminded local wellness-related businesses."
With the CBRN grant, The Beauty Barn hopes to be able to continue the Awakening to Better Beauty event in a safe, COVID-19-friendly way.
To learn more about the CBRN Small Business Relief Fund and see the full list of award recipients, visit the Small Business Relief Fund page.
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For over sixteen years companies have been able to access significant cash benefits from the Government's Research & Development ("R&D") tax scheme.
1. What is the R&D tax regime all about?
The R&D tax scheme provides companies with actual cash benefits which are directly linked to the level of qualifying expenditure incurred.
For example, SMEs may now access an additional cash benefit equivalent to £26k per £100k of spend; or if they are loss making they may receive an actual cash receipt from HMRC of up to £33.35k per £100k of spend.
The cash benefit for companies claiming under the large company scheme is £8.8k in both scenarios i.e. since April 2013 companies without a corporation tax liability may now receive actual cash from the Government.
Companies have two years from the end of their accounting period to make, or amend, an R&D claim so there is often scope for companies to access significant immediate cash benefits.
2. How is R&D defined?
For this purpose we need to consider the tax definition, which is often more far reaching than many people perceive.
R&D can generally be thought of as work undertaken to develop new, or improved, products or processes. For example, developing an automated process, or one that is quicker, more efficient or creates less waste etc. may potentially qualify.
3. What expenditure qualifies for this enhanced relief?
There are a range of qualifying categories of expense, including staffing costs, contracted out activities, EPWs (for instance, agency workers), consumables, computer software, utilities and payments to the subjects of clinical trials.
However, knowing that staffing costs qualify is the easy part. The complexity in preparing a claim involves, for example, identifying all employees involved within the R&D process and establishing the correct proportion of time they were engaged in qualifying activities.
4. What do you view to be the most important aspects in preparing an R&D claim?
Firstly, to ensure the claim is maximised. Preparing a standard R&D claim is far from complicated but unless a company takes proper, experienced advice they risk losing out on cash benefits to which they are entitled. The real added value lies in identifying all R&D projects undertaken (including work on processes), all qualifying activities, all employees involved and all other qualifying expenditure incurred.
Secondly, the documentation submitted to HMRC in support of a claim is vital. This helps HMRC to determine whether a company's activities qualify and therefore a company needs to ensure that the R&D Report contains the required information.
Finally, as part of my consultations with a company, I believe it is important to develop an internal process to assist with future claims and to minimise the input required from their personnel.
Should you wish to speak to Paul he is contactable on paul.arnold@bevanbuckland.co.uk or 01792 41010 / 075575 03140.