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The American public largely ignored the war crimes trials in Tokyo and throughout Asia in 1946-1948. Unlike the charismatic Nazi leadership, who were infamous throughout Europe, the Japanese leadership was not well known. That was due in part to the Allied propaganda, which did not want to criminalize the Emperor. If the Allied public saw him as a criminal, they would demand his removal, which would have prolonged the war.
Hirohito's role in the conflict is not clear. He is generally seen as ineffectual, although there was some evidence offered in the 1990's that showed he was an active participant in the war planning. However, to maintain order in Japan, the Emperor was not indicted.
Those executed soon after the war included Hideki Tojo, General Masaharu Homma, General Tomoyuki Yamashita, and five others who were blamed for atrocities during the war. The Japanese argued that they were subject to war crimes trials simply because of the heinous crimes of their German allies, essentially claiming the Allies were finding them guilty by association.
The Men put on trial in 1947 and 1948 were the first of 20,000 civilian and military former leaders who had either killed prisoners or had participated in the vague crime of instigating the war. While many would endure prison sentences of varying lengths, 900 were executed in trials around Asia.
The actions of Unit 731 in China were ever examined at the War Crimes Trials in Tokyo. Using biological, chemical and thermal tests on Chinese and Allied prisoners, they dropped bubonic plague on Chinese cities, froze naked Soviet prisoners in refrigerators, and experimented with anthrax, mustard and phosgene gas on POWs. Very little about unit 731 was known until the 1970s. The Tribunal does investigate the forced sexual slavery of hundreds of thousands of Korean, Chinese, Dutch and Filipino women. No compensation, or even a statement of admission, was given. That topic is a source of fierce debate in Asia today.
What was never recounted in either the European or Asian war crimes trials were the Allies\' war crimes. Systematic atrocities on the scale of Manila or Nanjing were never committed, but there had never been an apology or understanding of the horrors of firebombing of civilians and the use of atomic weapons.
Most of the 20,000 men were released when the Americans ended their occupation in 1952. Many right-wing Japanese deny there were war crimes at all. The 1997 release of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanjing resulted in a reexamination of World War II in Japan, with many people beginning to understand and examine Japan's actions.
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A County Donegal priest has been granted a two week adjournment of a hearing at which he is to face a number of Indecent assault charges.
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House Passes Far-reaching Anti-abortion Bill
JIM ABRAMS Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:10 PM EDT
The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats condemned as yet another example of the GOP war on women.
The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would restrict almost all abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception, defying laws in most states that allow abortions up to when the fetus becomes viable, usually considered to be around 24 weeks.
It mirrors 20-week abortion ban laws passed by some states, and lays further groundwork for the ongoing legal battle that abortion foes hope will eventually result in forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, that made abortion legal.
It passed 228-196, with 6 Democrats joining 6 Republicans in voting for it.
In the short term, the bill will go nowhere. The Democratic-controlled Senate will ignore it and the White House says the president would veto it if it ever reached his desk. The White House said the measure was "an assault on a woman's right to choose" and "a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade."
But it was a banner day for social conservatives who have generally seen their priorities overshadowed by economic and budgetary issues since Republicans recaptured the House in 2010.
Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, called it "the most important pro-life bill to be considered by the U.S. Congress in the last 10 years."
Marjorie Dannenfeiser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List — a group that seeks to eliminate abortion, said the legislation differed significantly from past abortion measures in that it restricts, rather than merely controls, the abortion procedure.
Democrats chided Republicans for taking up a dead-end abortion bill when Congress is doing little to promote jobs and economic growth. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called it "yet another Republican attempt to endanger women. It is disrespectful to women. It is unsafe for families and it is unconstitutional."
Democrats also said the decision by GOP leaders to appease their restless base with the abortion vote could backfire on Republican efforts to improve their standing among women.
"They are going down the same road that helped women elect Barack Obama president of the United States," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to the House. The bill is so egregious to women, said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., that women are reminded that "the last possible thing they ever want to do is leave their health policy to these men in blue suits and red ties."
Democrats repeatedly pointed out that all 23 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee that approved the measure last week on a party-line vote are men.
Republicans countered by assigning women to conspicuous roles in managing the bill on the House floor and presiding over the chamber. Republican women were prominent among those speaking in favor of the legislation.
The bill, said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who was assigned to manage the bill despite not being on the Judiciary Committee, would "send the clearest possible message to the American people that we do not support more Gosnell-like abortions."
The Republican leadership gave the green light to the abortion bill after social conservatives coalesced around the case of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was recently sentenced to life in prison for what prosecutors said was the murder of three babies delivered alive. Abortion foes said it exemplified the inhumanity of late-term abortions.
"After this Kermit Gosnell trial, (and) some of the horrific acts that were going on, the vast majority of the American people believe in the substance of this bill, and so do I," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Absent from the debate was the bill's main sponsor, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., who last week sparked a controversy by saying that rape resulted in few pregnancies.
After Franks' remark, which he later modified, Republicans quietly altered the bill to include an exception to the 20-week ban for instances of rape and incest. Democrats still balked, saying the exception would require a woman to prove that she had reported the rape to authorities.
The bill has an exception when a physical condition threatens the life of the mother, but Democratic efforts to include other health exceptions were rebuffed.
The legislation would ban abortions that take place 20 weeks after conception, which is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Some 10 states have passed laws similar to the House bill, and several are facing court challenges. Last month a federal court struck down as unconstitutional Arizona's law, which differs slightly in banning abortion 20 weeks after pregnancy rather than conception.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research organization that supports abortion rights, in 2009, 1.3 percent of the 1.2 million abortions in the country, about 15,600, occurred 20 weeks after the fetus was conceived.
Supporters of the legislation also contended that fetuses can feel pain after about 20 weeks, and the bill cites extensively from studies agreeing with that conclusion. Opponents say such findings are inconclusive.
Pro-choice groups argued that the 20-week ban, in addition to being unconstitutional, would affect women just at the point of learning of a fetal anomaly or determining that the pregnancy could put the mother's life in danger.
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Mother of four and parent coach Allison Marlowe knows only too well the worries that prey on the minds of anxious mums and dads as the first day of school looms closer.
For all of us fear of the unknown is often the root cause of anxiety and this can be avoided with careful planning. No-one quite knows how your child will react until the actual day dawns but knowing you have done all you possibly can to prepare will at least give you piece of mind.
Most schools have arrangements in place before the term begins to welcome new pupils and parents to meet their teacher and familiarise themselves with the school environment.
In the weeks running up to the big day – make sure you are certain what time the school day starts and finishes. You will need to start planning your new routine what time you need to get up, how long it takes for washing dressing and breakfast and you may even decide on a practice run, this will ensure you are not stressed or rushed on the big day.
All children like routines and at a time of change in your child's life, planning a routine will enforce as sense of security for them.
By involving your child in the preparations you will be helping them to adjust to the new situation ahead. Take them with you to buy their school uniform, school bag and lunch box. Talk to them about starting school, share some books from the library and share some of your positive experiences, make it fun but don't over excite them.
On the big day, it is only natural that you may be feeling emotional and anxious yourself. Remember you are not the first and certainly not the last to experience these feelings.
Say good bye to your child and remind them you will be back to collect them at the end of the day. If your child is crying, don't worry, most children stop crying a few minutes after their parents have left. Don't fuss too much – if you cry then your child will think there is cause for concern, excessive anxiety can be passed to your child and it is important not to undermine their self confidence.
It can be upsetting to watch your child being led into their new classroom, but focus on the positive and feel great satisfaction in a job well done in producing such a confident well balanced child.
At the end of the day, resist probing your child about what they have done – they will tell you when they are ready in their own good time. Instead you could try asking them who they played with.
Starting school takes some adjusting to, it is completely normal for your child to feel very tired and they may even display some out of character behaviour. Bear this in mind and keep extra curricular activities to a minimum for the time being.
A whole new world is about to open up to your child outside of the family. All new experiences cause some level of anxiety and as the newness wears off the anxiety will too fade. Try talking to other parents in the playground and you will be certainly surprised to find you are not alone.


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Fourfields Community Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of the school community to share this commitment. To this end we will endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where children are respected and valued.
The safety and well being of all children and young people is of paramount importance. We recognise that parents and carers send their children to school each day with the expectation that the school provides a safe and secure environment in which their children can flourish. We therefore have a wide range of measures in place to ensure this is put into practice and is maintained.
Child Protection at Fourfields
The school staff are trained to be alert to signs of abuse and neglect and will follow the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) procedures to ensure that children receive appropriate and effective support and protection.
Parents and carers should know that the law requires all school staff to pass on information which gives rise to concern about a child's welfare, including risk from neglect. The staff will seek, in general, to discuss any concerns with the parent/carer and, where possible, inform them of the referral to Social Care. This will only occur where such discussion will not place the child at increased risk of significant harm.
In accordance with local Information Sharing protocols. we will ensure that information is shared securely and sensitively. Information will only be shared with other services where it is deemed necessary and proportionate to ensure that children are safe and receive the right support.
School will seek advice from Social Care when they have reasonable cause to suspect a child may be suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. Occasionally concerns are passed on which are later shown to be unfounded. Parents/carers will appreciate that the member of staff in the school responsible for Child Protection (known as the Designated Lead or Officer) is charged with carrying out their responsibilities in accordance with the law and acting in the best interest of the child.
We have a number of policies in place which support our ethos for ensuring our children are safe, secure and in an environment where they can learn, thrive and Shine. These are available from our Policies section and include:
Child Not Collected Protocol
First Aid and Medical Conditions Policies
ICT Acceptable Use Policy
Looked After Child Policy
Prevent Policy
Safer Recruitment Policy
Site Security Policy
Induction and Training
All our staff and volunteers have an induction schedule which includes safeguarding training and every member of staff has formal training every two years. This knowledge is maintained throughout the school year with bite size reminders and updates on current practices and law.
Robust Recruitment Procedures
As a school we take time to assess all applications and include clear expectations around safeguarding and suitability to work with children. We apply these protcols and expectations to regular volunteers too. Candidates can be expected to answer questions around safeguarding in their recruitment selection day.
PSHE Curriculum and E Safety Curriculum
Through our Personal Social and Health Education curriculum children will learn how to keep themselves safe (age appropriate). Similalrly, with IT taking a leading part in our children's every day lives we teach them how to be safe on line and offer workshops for parents too.
Nominated Officers
We have three members of staff who undertake the Desiganted Child Protection Officer role (Designated Lead). These are Mrs Blyth (Headteacher), Mr Brown (Deputy Headteacher) and Mrs Park (FS Leader). Our governors leading safeguarding are Mrs South and Mrs Turner.
We have stringent management and maintenance of our site to ensure it is safe and secure which includes management of visitors to our site. All visitors must sign in and where a visitor badge and are escorted unless they have met our vetting requirements to work in school unsupervised. We have a silver award for our travel plan management which includes management of road safety around our school.
First Aid at Fourfields
Every class has access to a Teaching Assistant who is trained to adminsiter first aid and we have an electronic system to advise parents of any treatment udnertaken in school. We also have additional first aiders around the school to support the teaching assistants and to manage medicine administration.
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Starcon Receives National Excellence Awards from Associated Builders and Contractors
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Starcon has received prestigious national recognition at the 23rd Annual Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Excellence in Construction Awards ceremony, including a top safety award for the third consecutive year. The Event took place on February 20th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Starcon received the 2012 National Safety Excellence Award as an Excellence Winner in the Specialty Contractor Category, which included six contractors. "ABC is proud to honor Starcon International with a National Safety Excellence Award for demonstrating an extraordinary commitment to safety and outstanding safety performance," said Michael D. Bellaman, ABC president and CEO. "Starcon International has truly shown a dedication to becoming one of the leaders for the industry by striving to create the safest work environment possible for its employees."
The 2012 National Safety Excellence Award winners were selected from ABC member firms that achieved Diamond and Platinum status in ABC's Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP). During the selection process, national safety winners were judged on self-evaluation scores, lost workday case rates, total recordable rates, leading indicator use, process and program innovations and interviews conducted by members of ABC's National Environment, Health & Safety Committee.
Starcon also received a 2012 National Excellence in Construction Award as a Pyramid Winner in the Specialty Contractor Category for mechanical projects. According to ABC, "The Excellence in Construction Awards honor the skill and creativity of the entire team – contractor, owner, architect and engineer – responsible for an outstanding merit shop construction project, recognizing award recipients for exceeding expectations in innovation and quality."
Starcon Vice-Presidents Jim Soukup and Reggie Williams accepted the Pyramid Award for Starcon. Starcon President & COO Dale Kuntz and Vice President Alan Burton accepted the STEP Award. "Starcon is very pleased to be recognized by the ABC organization for our 2012 performance," Dale said. "Safety is a core value at Starcon and we remain committed to building a Beyond Zero Safety culture."
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Comb-Pattern Pottery
This Comb-Pattern Pot is the so-called comb-pattern Pottery, which has a round base and is decorated with the distinctive incised or impressed linear patterns that give this pot its name. It is typical of the Neolithic pottery in Korea which is made of handcrafted clay fired in open or semi-open pits and used for preparing and storing food.
This particular example of comb-pattern pottery was excavated from the prehistoric settlement site in Seoul. With a wide mouth and narrow base, and the surface is decorated with engraved lines and dots forming geometric patterns. Both the form and the motifs that characterize this type of pottery are unique to Korea.
This example was created during the Jeulmun Pottery Period which is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory broadly spanning the period of 8000–1500 BC. The Jeulmun pottery period is named after the decorated pottery vessels that form a large part of the pottery created over this period. Jeulmun means "Comb-patterned". Because of the early presence of pottery, the entire period has also been subsumed under a broad label of "Korean Neolithic". The people of the Jeulmun practised a broad spectrum economy of hunting, gathering, foraging, and small-scale cultivation of wild plants. It was during the Jeulmun that the cultivation of millet and rice was introduced to the Korean peninsula from the Asian continent.
Li – Chinese Tripod Jar
Mycenaean Krater
Luohan – Yixian Glazed Ceramic Sculpture (MET)
Korean Neolithic Pot
Neolithic Pottery from Ban Chiang
Name: Comb-Pattern Pottery
Period: Neolithic Period (6000 to 4000 BCE)
Provenance: Seoul
Materials: Clay
Dimensions: H.38.1cm, Mouth D.26.6cm
Museum: National Museum of Korea
"Even monkeys fall from trees."
– Korean Proverb
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Supply chain stakeholders offer incentives to keep trucks moving through West Coast ports
Published Dec. 3, 2021
Jim Stinson Senior Reporter
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Government and supply chain stakeholders announced multiple incentives for trucking companies operating at the congested West Coast ports.
The Federal Maritime Commission moved to allow the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to charge the traffic mitigation fee only between 7 a.m. and 5:59 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The temporary fee suspension would last from Dec. 1 to Jan. 31, 2022.
Ocean carrier CMA CGM offered credit for timely pickups. The France-based carrier said it will give $100 per container made during daytime pickups, from Monday to Friday. Night and weekend pickups receive $200 per container.
Supply chain problems, many jointly related to trucking and West Coast ports, have frustrated transport executives and national leaders for months. But the regulatory relief may be chipping away at a persistent problem in 2021. Much of that relief, of late, has been aimed at the trucking end.
Trucking is key to unclogging the ports because trucks are the main tool to move the containers, full and empty, out of the yards. Frustration with systems at the ports led Matt Schrap, CEO of Harbor Trucking Association, to tell Transport Dive that the empty containers were not being sent back to the ocean carriers fast enough. Instead, drivers with empty containers were being turned away at their appointed times. That also led chassis to run short, because the containers sit atop the chassis.
This bottleneck has caused massive media attention to focus on the ports, with many citing the driver shortage as a cause. Schrap denied that and said it was a productivity issue inside the ports. And there is a lot of productivity needed.
Since the economy rebooted, the ports have been slammed for almost a year with a surge in ocean-carrier traffic from Asia. The giant Southern California complex takes in about 40% of imported goods, all through two municipally run ports in San Pedro Bay.
The percentage of shipments experiencing dwell greater than five days at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach rocketed from 5.7% in July 2020 to 32.8% in September, according to data from the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association.
The White House and port officials scrambled to address the recovery-related problems, with its newly minted White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force. Many of their solutions did not focus on pouring more drivers into the ports, but instead focused on making it easier for trucking firms to get containers in and out of the ports.
Government leaders see efforts to unclog the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach bearing some fruit, according to President Joe Biden. Biden touted the three actions taken by the FMCSA, the FMC and ocean carrier CMA CGM in a public speech on Wednesday. Over the last month, the number of containers left sitting on docks has gone down by 40%, Biden said.
As of Thursday, the number of ships at the ports dropped to 132, including 74 at anchor or loitering, and 58 at berth, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California.
The Biden administration encouraged the suspension of the traffic mitigation fee, in an attempt to unclog the West Coast ports and encourage more freight movement during off-hours. But at least one member of the FMC said more is needed from the ports, carriers and government agencies regarding the issue of appointments with drivers.
"For a 24/7 or off-peak gate hours program to be successful, it means that all supply chain partners need to be rowing in the same direction," Carl W. Bentzel, a commissioner with FMC, said in a statement.
Bentzel said he also has concerns with the appointment system, which gives truckers times to pick up freight or drop off containers.
"The current appointment system has not been successful in ensuring that appointments will be kept," said Bentzel. "Each terminal operates its own system, and this balkanization impacts the effectiveness of the appointment process. The industry should explore how to strengthen this program."
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    {
        xmld.Load("ustawienia.xml");
        globals._serv = xmld.GetElementsByTagName("ip").Item(0).InnerText;
        if (globals._serv.Length<=0)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Nie zdefiniowano servera");
            Server_Deff sdf = new Server_Deff();
            sdf.ShowDialog();
        }
    }

    static string db_user = "SYSDBA";
    static string db_pass = "masterkey";

    public static string cstr=
                "User=" + globals.db_user + ";" +
                "Password=" + globals.db_pass + ";" +
                "Database=db_kanc;" +
                "DataSource=" + globals.serv +
                "Port=3050;" +
                "Dialect=3;" +
                "Charset=NONE;" +
                "Role=appka;" +
                "Connection lifetime=15;" +
                "Pooling=true;" +
                "MinPoolSize=0;" +
                "MaxPoolSize=50;" +
                "Packet Size=8192;" +
                "ServerType=0";

    public static FbConnection conn = new FbConnection(globals.cstr);
    public static FbTransaction transaction;

    public static void openConnection() // Open database Connection
    {
    conn.Open();
    transaction = conn.BeginTransaction();
}

For some reasons neither when the IP address is defined in XML file nor when it's not variable serv seems to be null. I can get the value through message box but not as a proper Datasource in connection string.
While trying to connect to db I'm getting error like this:
FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FbException: Unable to complete network request to host "Port=3050". ---> FirebirdSql.Data.Common.IscException: Unable to complete network request to host "Port=3050".
   w FirebirdSql.Data.Client.Managed.Version10.GdsConnection.Connect()
   w FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.ClientFactory.CreateManagedDatabase(FbConnectionString options)
   w FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.ClientFactory.CreateDatabase(FbConnectionString options)
   w FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FbConnectionInternal.Connect()

Any ideas?

A: Try this:
public class globals
{
    public static string serv { get; set; }
    // other variables here
}

public static XmlDocument xmld = new XmlDocument();

public static void serv_check()
{
    xmld.Load("ustawienia.xml");
    globals._serv = xmld.GetElementsByTagName("ip").Item(0).InnerText;
    if (globals._serv.Length<=0)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Nie zdefiniowano servera");
        Server_Deff sdf = new Server_Deff();
        sdf.ShowDialog();
    }
}

static string db_user = "SYSDBA";
static string db_pass = "masterkey";

public static string cstr = string.Format(
    "User={0};Password={1};Database=db_kanc;DataSource={2};Port=3050;" +
        "Dialect=3;Charset=NONE;Role=appka;Connection lifetime=15;" +
        "Pooling=true;MinPoolSize=0;MaxPoolSize=50;Packet Size=8192;" +
        "ServerType=0;",
    globals.db_user,
    globals.db_pass,
    globals.serv);

public static FbConnection conn = new FbConnection(globals.cstr);
public static FbTransaction transaction;

public static void openConnection() // Open database Connection
{
    conn.Open();
    transaction = conn.BeginTransaction();
}

A: The error
Unable to complete network request to host "Port=3050"

Segment of the cstr
"DataSource=" + globals.serv +
"Port=3050;" +

It means the globals.serv is just an empty string.
The root cause is serv_check() is run after cstr initialize and cstr not updated.
If you need to change the globals.serv you also need to update cstr or just make a new readonly property (Note the ";" after DataSource was added)
public static string ConnectionString
{
  get
  {
    return "User=" + globals.db_user + ";" +
                "Password=" + globals.db_pass + ";" +
                "Database=db_kanc;" +
                "DataSource=" + globals.serv + ";" +
                "Port=3050;" +
                "Dialect=3;" +
                "Charset=NONE;" +
                "Role=appka;" +
                "Connection lifetime=15;" +
                "Pooling=true;" +
                "MinPoolSize=0;" +
                "MaxPoolSize=50;" +
                "Packet Size=8192;" +
                "ServerType=0";
  }
}

A: Problem solved.
public class globals
{
static string db_user = "SYSDBA";
static string db_pass = "masterkey";
public static string host;

    public static XmlDocument xmld = new XmlDocument();

    public static string serv_check()
    {
        xmld.Load("ustawienia.xml");
        host = xmld.GetElementsByTagName("ip").Item(0).InnerText;
        if (host.Length<=0)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Nie zdefiniowano servera");
            Server_Deff sdf = new Server_Deff();
            sdf.ShowDialog();
        }
        return host;
    }
    public static string serv=serv_check().ToString();

    public static string cstr
    {
        get
        { return
                "User=" + globals.db_user + ";" +
                "Password=" + globals.db_pass + ";" +
                "Database=db_kanc;" +
                "DataSource=" + globals.serv + ";" +
                "Port=3050;" +
                "Dialect=3;" +
                "Charset=NONE;" +
                "Role=appka;" +
                "Connection lifetime=15;" +
                "Pooling=true;" +
                "MinPoolSize=0;" +
                "MaxPoolSize=50;" +
                "Packet Size=8192;" +
                "ServerType=0";
        }
    }

    public static FbConnection conn = new FbConnection(globals.cstr);
    public static FbTransaction transaction;

    public static void openConnection() // Open database Connection
    {
    conn.Open();
    transaction = conn.BeginTransaction();
    }

    public static void closeConnection() // database connection close
    {
        transaction.Commit();
        conn.Close();
    }

    public static int user_id = new int();
    public static int user_r = new int();

}

Maybe not the purest solution but works for me :)
Thanks Eric!

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The American Conifer Society annually awards a $4,000 grant to a public garden, arboretum or horticultural institution that has demonstrated its support of the development, conservation or propagation of conifers.
The grant was established in 1986 to honor the memory of plantsman Jean Iseli of Boring, Oregon, who was an ACS founder and conifer propagator.
The name, address, and phone of the institution and person at the institution applying for the grant.
A short overview of the mission statement or horticultural background of the institution applying for the grant.
A brief description of how the ACS funds would be used, including a budget.
Note: Not more than 20% of the grant monies to be allocated to labor/staff time.
Applications must be received by June 2. The announcement of the grant recipient is made upon Board of Directors approval (usually within 60-90 days).
Each year the ACS awards a $3,000 grant to one of our Reference Gardens. These grants are used to expand or develop their conifer collections, provide signage or educational materials, among other projects.
Arborist Nick Pettit saw the need for better interpretation of the Bartlett Arboretum's conifer collection and thus applied for the Iseli Award. After receipt of the award, plant labels and stakes were contracted. Volunteers have helped with the assembly of each label with its stake. As a result of the Iseli Award, over 300 taxa of conifers cultivated at the Bartlett Arboretum are now interpreted with a common name, scientific name and family name.
Part of the conifer collection contains a number of witches' brooms that Dr. Sid Waxman, professor emeritus of horticulture at the University of Connecticut, had grown. He obtained some of them by shooting them out of trees using a shotgun. They include Pinus strobus, Tsuga canadensis and Sciadopitys, among others.
The monies from the grant were used to update the display labels in the conifer collection. While many had display labels, there was a significant number that did not. At least one plant of each taxa in the collection was given a 3-inch by 5-inch engraved label created in-house with a Hermes Vanguard 3400 engraving machine. Each label includes the scientific name, common name and scientific family name.
The conifer collection is integrated into the entire arboretum, although significant portions of conifers are located in both the Pinetum and the Dwarf Conifer Collection planting. Currently there are 330 coniferous taxa, including the following genera: Abies, Araucaria, Calocedrus, Cedrus, Cephalotaxus, Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Cunninghamia, X Cupressocyparis, Cupressus, Ginkgo, Glyptostrobus, Juniperus, Larix, Metasequoia, Microbiota, Picea, Pinus, Pseudolarix, Pseudotsuga, Sciadopitys, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron, Taiwania,Taxodium, Taxus, Thuja, Thujopsis,Torreya and Tsuga.
The mission of the arboretum is to grow and display the best ornamental plants for the Delaware River Valley for gardeners of average means. Plants are acquired based on this mission. On a regular basis they add new species, cultivars and selections that have ornamental potential and promise.
Several genera have been recently curated. The curation process involves evaluating current collections, researching ornamental plants that are missing and procuring new plants. In the last 10 years the process has been completed for Abies, Cryptomeria, Cupressus, Picea and Pinus.
The conifer collection greatly supports the arboretum's educational programs. Many lectures, workshops and seminars have focused on the collection. A self-guided tour/brochure titled "A Cast of Conifers" helps the interested homeowner see some of the best specimen conifers in landscape situations. Future plans include adding to the significant collections, evaluating lesser known coniferous genera and expanding under-represented genera such as Cupressus.
The Scott Arboretum is free and open to the public. The gardens are open from dawn to dusk, 365 days of the year, making it one of the most accessible public gardens in the mid-Atlantic region.
The award was used by Rotary Gardens to help develop its juniper collection. Over 40 varieties of Juniperus are now on display at the gardens, the majority of which are situated in the rugged rock garden. Rotary Gardens continues to develop its existing conifer collection with an emphasis on dwarf conifers as space becomes more limited. There are currently over 175 different conifers in the gardens.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden used the Iseli Award to add many conifer cultivars to its collection, including some new introductions to the United States. Twenty new conifers were imported from the Netherlands, including four cultivars of Podocarpus nivalis and several Van Hoey Smith selections. New species from China and some new cultivars of Cryptomeria japonica were also targeted. Some of the conifers were ordered directly from Iseli's Nursery, bringing the grant full circle.
The Iseli Award provided $500 to The Dawes Arboretum in 1994. Part of this grant was spent on five conifers from Hobbie and Associates, Loudenville, Ohio: blue star singleseed juniper (Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star'), Iseli fastigiate Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens 'Iseli Fastigiate', seemed appropriate), Baker Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens 'Bakeri'), a weeping form of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and weeping European larch (Larix decidua 'Pendula'). The larch did not survive but the others are doing fine. The remainder of the money was spent for materials and manufacturing costs to make 165 Metalphoto labels for conifer specimens.
The collection now consists of 3,600 conifers encompassing 883 different taxa. Many of these are located in a 13.7-acre area fittingly called the Conifer Glen. Southwest of the glen are an additional two acres near Dawes Lake that serve as a spill-over for duplicate accessions.
In the next few years additions to the glen will include a wheelchair accessible trail to a very pretty overlook, bridges and boardwalk to cross a small stream and an observation/interpretive structure. Visit the Web site for Conifer Reports, www.dawesarb.org.
The University of California-Davis Arboretum was founded in 1936 with the planting of a collection of California native trees, including Jeffrey and foothill pines (Pinus jeffreyi and Pinus sabiniana), incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), and coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). Seedlings were donated by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Since that time, conifers have continued to form an important part of the plant collections and support the education and research missions of the arboretum.
Pinus (47), Pseudotsuga (2), Taxodium (2), and Tetraclinis (1).
Among the uncommon conifers in the collection are four species of Callitris, the cypress pine native to Australia and Tasmania; a single specimen of Pere David's pine (Keteleeria davidiana); lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana), a native of northern and central China, whose name reflects the tendency of the bark to flake off to reveal creamy white branches and trunks; Himalayan white pine (Pinus wallichiana), a beautiful soft-textured, graceful tree native to the Himalayas; Tetraclinis articulate, the arar tree and source of sandarac, a hard resin used in industry; and big-cone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa), a handsome tree with long swaying branches, rarely found in cultivation.
The arboretum used the Iseli Award to label the conifer collection. Staff prepared labels using a photoengraving process and mounted them on the trees where possible, using special expansion screws, or on metal stakes. Part of this funding also supported the production of an interpretive sign in the conifer collection. The 18-inch x 24-inch sign was produced with a photographic process, imbedded in fiberglass, and mounted in a custom- fabricated stand.
The arboretum is most grateful for the support of the American Conifer Society for these important educational projects. The staff believes the value of a public garden as an educational resource depends as much on interpretation (plant labels, educational signs and exhibits and brochures) as on the strength of the collections. In fact, to the uninformed visitor, interpretive materials are all that distinguish a botanical garden or arboretum from a park. Interpretive displays provide access to the horticultural and botanical ideas that underlie the garden design. They increase awareness and appreciation of the natural world by pointing out the characteristics of a plant or the theme that guides a collection. Effective interpretation can expand the plant palette of gardeners and horticulturist, and educate the public to the impact of our life choices on the environment.


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10 Novels About Feminist Utopias
By Kath January 15, 2020 Discussion and Recommendations
It seems like for the last few years everyone's either been reading about dystopian societies or feeling as though they are living in one, so as an antithesis to the depressing idea that all humanity is probably doomed, today we're focusing on the brighter side of life!
There's no denying that dystopia is en vogue but today we're bucking the trend, and we're doing so with some kick ass female characters. There's no denying we live in a world where people think women aren't suited to power and so today we're not just looking at Utopias but feminist ones with a list of ten books about ten brilliant utopian societies, all with a matriarchal structure.
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula le Guin
Not strictly Utopian but the planet Winter is pretty cool (no pun intended), everyone's gender fluid and sexual prejudice doesn't exist. Sounds pretty Utopian to me!
Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
You'll find this one shelved under post-apocalyptic, but as the shoots of a new society grow from the ashes of a destroyed one, a new faith and a new vision for human destiny is born.
Woman on the Edge of Time – Marge Piercy
It seems that even to have a Utopian future, we have to tolerate a shitty now as Woman on the Edge of Time shows, following one woman declared unfairly insane in the present, but contacted by an envoy from the future who shows her a Utopian 2137.
Woman on the Edge of Time
The Female Man – Joanna Russ
This is the story of when three people from parallel worlds meet, a 1970s feminist, a warrior from an earth where men and woman are at war, a woman from a female utopian earth where men have died out, and a woman waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended. Not strictly Utopian, but a worthy inclusion to the list.
The Female Man
Ammonite – Nicola Griffith
Jeep is a world where the men died out and for centuries woman and lived and ruled the planet alone… until now.
A Door Into Ocean – Joan Slonczewski
As sci-fi goes A Door into Ocean is an important piece of feminist literature.
A Door Into Ocean it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis.
A Door Into Ocean
The Herland Trilogy – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This classic work of Utopian literature was released more than 100 years ago so is pretty groundbreaking. Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination, and is just what we're looking for for this list.
The Herland Trilogy
Motherlines – Suzy Mckee Charnas
Motherlines is the search for a feminist Utopia, following the story of
Alldera, who scapes from the Holdfast, a feudal post-holocaust enslave in which women are enslaved creatures, and survives a long trek in search of a community of women who reproduce parthenogenetically
Motherlines
Wonder Woman: A Just War
War. For humankind, it is the oldest and deadliest enemy there is. And for Diana of Themyscira, the same is true…almost. Wonder Woman is a warrior from the feminist land of Themyscira, where men are forbidden and women are super-powered.
The Dialectic of Sex – Shulamith Firestone
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The Dialectic of Sex
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new function()
{
	var Notification = Objs("truemvc.observer.Notification");

	/**
	 * @class truemvc.command.MacroCommand
	 *
	 * @classDescription
	 * A base Command implementation that executes other Commands.
	 *
	 *

	 * A MacroCommand maintains an list of Command class references called SubCommands.
	 *
	 *

	 * When execute is called, the MacroCommand instantiates and calls execute on
	 * each of its SubCommands turn. Each SubCommand will be passed a reference to the original
	 * Notification that was passed to the MacroCommand's execute method.
	 *
	 *

	 * Unlike MacroCommand, your subclass should not override execute, but instead, should
	 * override the initializeMacroCommand method, calling addSubCommand once for each
	 * SubCommand to be executed.
	 *
	 *

	 * As in JavaScript there isn't interfaces, MacroCommand and MacroCommand cannot offer
	 * the guarantee to have the right signature. We could have inherited from a common Command class,
	 * but to avoid an unwanted complexity and to respect TrueMVC implementation, this is to the developer to take care
	 * to inherit from MacroCommand in its command and MacroCommand depending on his need.
	 *
	 * @implements truemvc.observer.INotifier
	 *
	 * @constructor
	 */
	var MacroCommand = Objs
	(
		"truemvc.command.MacroCommand",
		"truemvc.command.Command",
		{
			/**
			 * An array of MacroCommands or subclasses of.
			 *
			 * @type {Array}
			 * @private
			 */
			subCommands: null,

			/**
			 * @override
			 * @constructs
			 * Initialize a MacroCommand instance.
			 */
			initialize: function()
			{
				this.subCommands = [];
				this.initializeMacroCommand();
			},

			/**
			 * @abstract
			 * Initialize the MacroCommand.
			 *
			 *

			 * In your subclass, override this method to initialize the MacroCommand's subCommands
			 * list with Command class references like this:
			 *
			 *

			 *    // Initialize MyMacroCommand
			 *    initializeMacroCommand: function()
			 *    {
			 *    	this.addSubCommand(FirstCommand);
			 *      this.addSubCommand(SecondCommand);
			 *      this.addSubCommand(ThirdCommand);
			 *    }
			 *

			 *
			 *

			 * Note that subCommands may be any Command implementor.
			 *
			 *

			 * In the JavaScript version it means that it only needs to implement an execute method and inherits from
			 * Notifier.
			 */
			initializeMacroCommand: function(){},

			/**
			 * Add an entry to subCommands list.
			 *
			 *

			 * The subCommands will be called in First In/First Out (FIFO) order.
			 *
			 * @param {String} classPath
			 * 		Classpath of the Command class to add.
			 */
			addSubCommand: function( classPath )
			{
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			},

			/**
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			 *
			 *

			 * The subCommands will be called in First In/First Out (FIFO) order.
			 *
			 * @param {Notification} notification
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					var commandClass/*Function*/ = Objs(classPath);
					if( !commandClass )
						continue;

					var commandInstance/*Command*/ = new commandClass();
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Mermaid Turtle Race
This silent film shows three Weeki Wachee mermaids putting on fins and heading into the spring to find a turtle. Each mermaid finds a turtle and brings it onto the bank for a race. At the end of the race, the other mermaids congratulate the winner and her turtle.
01:32; B&W; silent; AA536; V-251
Florida's Wildlife Heritage
This film examines the negative impact humans have had on Florida's environment. The soundtrack begins with gentle flute music as scenes of swamp grasses, flowers and birds at dawn grace the screen. The music soon switches to up-tempo pop as the footage shows surfers, sailboats and sunbathers on t...
16:25; color; sound; V-258; DA146
Primeval Paradise
Ed Ball, owner of Wakulla Springs, produced this film. It starts with a trio of conquistadors bathing in the spring and then shows animals (aquatic birds, freshwater fish, snapping turtles and alligators) above and below the surface of the river. It has good underwater photography.
10:04; color; sound; V-40 BA061; WV-11
Wakulla River and Wakulla Springs Scuba Diving
This film shows two men motoring down the Wakulla River, towing a camera person in a smaller boat. Footage shows wildlife along the river, including anhingas, limpkins, egrets, alligators and turtles. A giant hornet nest hangs high up in a tree. Underwater footage in the shallow areas of the river i...
10:51; color; silent; V-258; DA148
This early movie begins with a series of shots of St. Augustine, including the Fountain of Youth and the oldest house. Next, people are shown catching turtles at Silver Springs. The film continues with brief scenes of: Marineland; Palm Beach; Bok Tower; water skiing at Cypress Gardens; aerial and...
1948 / 6:48; B&W; silent; V-173 S. 828
Florida Folk Festival 1964
This film contains footage of participants and performers at the 1964 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. It opens with scenes of the Stephen Foster Memorial. A "town crier" announces the start of the Florida Folk Festival. Seminoles open the festival...
13:03; color; sound; V-203 FLBA003; S1579; Media 1979-9
Scenes of the Everglades
40:22; B&W; silent; N2009-2
Businessman and adventurer Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 to illustrate the exotic environment found in the Everglades. Brinkley lived among the Seminoles in the Everglades for several months. He later used the film in a traveling show that included a live caged bear and himself...
Unusual World of Florida
This film begins with aerials of a Fort Lauderdale airboat ride, swamp buggies in Naples, Corkscrew Swamp, animals along the Wakulla River and Cypress Gardens. It then shows a chrysanthemum farm, Castillo de San Marcos (St. Augustine), Bok Tower and Citrus Tower. Stephen Foster Memorial is next with...
12:53; color; sound; V-74 BA019; S. 828
05:03; color; sound; AA083; V-251
World's Fair Gators
This silent flim features alligators in the Florida Pavillion at the New York World's Fair. Officers from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission show a small alligator to the crowd. Turtles are also shown sharing habitat with the alligators.
TURTLE WHARVES AND SAILBOAT
2:50; b&w; silent; V-90 AA058; S. 828
This film shows sea turtles at Turtle Kraal and a twin-masted sailboat underway.
WAKULLA UNDERWATER
8:45; color; silent; V-159 WV-7
Two divers swim under the ledge. The film shows vegetation, large catfish on the bottom, turtles, suckerfish, divers in the bowl, flounder, anhinga, schools of small fish and gar.
FLORIDA GIANT REPTILES
This film has a few shots of the Florida crocodile, scenes of gators in the wild and shots of a man with a gator skull. There is a great sequence of a game warden handling a nuisance gator in which the warden's thumb is bitten and the gator's jaws are pried apart to free the thumb. The gator is hog-...
13:00; color; sound; V-66 CA073; S. 828
"Narrated" by Big John Bass, this film has good underwater photography at Silver Springs. Viewers see ducks, turtles, mullet, snakes, alligators, scuba divers, jack fish and saltwater bass from underwater. The film also shows anhinga and monkeys. A diver uses a wet sub, and there are scenes of a fil...
Two divers descend to the cave entrance. There is a view from inside the cave as divers swim in with lights. The divers measure a mastodon tusk and bone on the cave floor and swim out. The divers swim to a ledge near pipes, a view of the cliff face (eastern lip), fish and vegetation. Then, the film ...
EVERGLADES WILDLIFE
11:06; color; silent; V-100 BA128; S. 828
This film shows scenes of otters, opossums, raccoons, deer, rattlesnakes, turtles and gators in the Everglades. There are shots of Glades islands that are rookeries, including storks, eggs in a nest, chicks in a nest, cormorant chicks in a nest, limpkins, roseate spoonbills, herons, skimmers, an owl...
ST. AUGUSTINE AND MARINELAND VISITS
16:00; color; silent; V-177 H-5
This home film begins with a short segment showing African-American men and women putting up shade cloth for a tobacco field. It then switches to Fort San Marcos and St. Augustine. It shows attractions such as the Fountain of Youth, the Oldest House and the burial grounds of the Timucuan Indians. It...
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Investors are rushing into marijuana stocks, as the prospects for explosive growth in the cannabis industry loom in the immediate future. With pot slated to become available for recreational use in Canada by the middle of October, those seeking to profit from the marijuana producers that want to supply the budding Canadian market have caused share prices to soar.
Sometimes, the moves that marijuana pioneers like Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC), Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQOTH:ACBFF), and Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY) make in the course of a single day seem beyond belief, especially in the absence of major news about the fundamental prospects for their respective businesses. Just today, Tilray jumped more than 50% when trading opened, despite having no new announcements since the market closed the previous day.
Yet what investors in marijuana stocks need to understand is that behind the scenes, there's a massive tug-of-war going on, and short-term traders with sharply different beliefs about the future of the marijuana industry all want to make money at each other's expense. In particular, those betting against pot stocks are selling shares short, and while that could make them rich if their skepticism about marijuana proves correct, it also leaves them vulnerable to an event known as a short squeeze.
The idea behind selling any stock short is pretty simple. In order to sell a stock short, you first have to find someone from whom you can borrow shares. Typically, your broker will handle the logistics of finding that shareholder -- most often, another client of the same broker -- and obtaining the shares. Then, you sell those shares on the open market.
Ideally, your goal with a short sale is to replace the stock at some later date after the share price has fallen. For instance, if you sell a stock short at $200 per share and the price falls to $125, then you can buy back the stock, return it to the shareholder you borrowed it from, and pocket the $75 per share difference as profit.
The potential profits from short-selling don't come without risk. If the stock price rises, then you'll eventually have to spend more to replace it than you received when you sold it -- and that extra money has to come out of your own pocket. With no theoretical limit to how high a stock price can soar, your potential losses from your short position are similarly unlimited.
What's A Short Squeeze, And Why Does It Happen?
In isolation, any single short sale doesn't have a huge impact on the overall market for that stock. However, when a stock becomes a popular target of short-sellers, traders find out about it, because major stock exchanges keep tabs of how much short-sale activity is associated with each stock and regularly report those figures. If bullish traders can put enough pressure on short-sellers, then a short squeeze can occur.
In a typical short squeeze, some piece of news or other catalyst sends the stock price significantly higher. Short-sellers then face a tough decision: Buy shares to close out their short positions at a loss, or hold on and risk even bigger losses. Shareholders know that short-sellers are trying to close their positions, so they hold out for even higher prices, continuing the cycle and putting even more pressure on short-sellers.
Even worse for short-sellers is the fact that they don't always have a choice in deciding to buy back stock. If losses mount to the point at which short-sellers have insufficient margin with their brokers, then they'll be subject to a forced transaction. Moreover, if the investor from whom you borrowed the shares wants them back, your brokerage agreement will typically make you close your position by repurchasing the stock -- no matter the price.
For investors who don't understand the dynamics of short-selling, a soaring stock can seem like validation of their investing thesis in a particular company. With marijuana stocks in particular, even stratospheric gains can seem warranted if you focus on the long-term future of the nascent recreational-pot industry.
The problem is that short squeezes inevitably end. When short-sellers are all forced out of their positions, there's no one left to buy shares at their now-lofty prices -- but there are plenty of investors who are happy to sell their stock at a huge profit. The short squeeze typically finishes with a dramatic plunge in the share price back toward the levels that prevailed immediately before it started.
Marijuana stocks are prone to be volatile for the foreseeable future, and some of those moves will be legitimate responses to important news items regarding the companies and the industry. However, many of the moves you'll see on a daily basis have little to do with marijuana producers or their business prospects and everything to do with traders of the shares. By keeping an eye on short-selling interest in marijuana stocks, you'll be prepared for short squeezes when they come -- and the inevitable aftermath when they're done.


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EP106- What about the Dads? How your Partner could be Silently Suffering with Eli Weinstein
Supporting Postpartum for Men and Avoiding Maternal Gatekeeping
The fatherhood postpartum experience can be challenging, but it's often overlooked. Men also feel stress and anxiety about the changes that happen with the arrival of a new baby in the family. In addition, they have to deal with challenges like getting time to bond with the baby, feeling like they are not needed and dealing with others who don't understand. As a mother, it can feel like way too much to worry about in postpartum to care about your partner's well-being. However, opening up to conversations around these topics with your partner could be a matter of saving your relationship and addressing your fears before they become intense.
Hear how to save your relationship postpartum before it takes the wrong turn in this episode of Mamas in Training!
Why We Need to Talk More About Male Postpartum
When we first think of motherhood and pregnancy, there are many questions to ask ourselves and others. There are questions about the nursery, birth, and postpartum, but there may be one question that you forgot to ask... Someone who is very important in the equation. Your partner! And the question is, how are THEY feeling?
We often get swept up in the massive to-do list and how we're physically feeling that we forget to ask our partners what they might be going through. Most of the time, they end up taking a back seat because they are in the support zone. They get into a protector mode where they don't dare talk about their feelings and instead bury them, causing more trouble in the end.
Eli Weinstein, a mental health and licensed clinical social work therapist, is on the show today to give us the partner's perspective. He himself suffered postpartum from an intense anxiety attack and is here to teach you how to protect your partner from experiencing the same thing!
Learn how you can reach out to your partner and start a conversation about how they are feeling, as well as great tips for avoiding maternal gatekeeping or making your partner feel like the third wheel during postpartum.
About Eli Weinstein
Eli is not only a therapist, but he's also a dad who personally experienced a severe panic attack two months postpartum. He gives us the tools to support our partners and make sure their experience is recognized during our journey so that they can remain both physically and mentally healthy. Eli also has a podcast known as The Dude Therapist, where he shares openly about his own experiences that have encouraged him to support others through anxiety issues, parenting, relationship, and more.
Eli shares his journey with infertility and IVF in the episode as well as how he navigated in supporting his wife and managing the emotions that came with postpartum. The fear of not being able to be a parent was eminent, especially after their first IVF had failed. Being a dad was a dream come true for him, and he loves his sweet spot, "baby naps." He's looking forward to it again, as his wife is pregnant with their second baby. He's also much more prepared now that he knows what to expect. To Eli, fatherhood is a journey of being able to pass on values and it teaches you values, perspective, and patience. Listen to the latest episode, where Eli chatted with Jessica.
[02:26] Eli Weinstein on postpartum for men
[03:43] Hyper-focused; lessons that Eli learned from his postpartum panic attack
[06:36] Emotions that he should have dealt with to avoid the panic attack
[10:24] How you can support your partner through postpartum
[12:50] Try not to fix it, just be with the emotions to process them
[14:54] What Eli would have done differently to prepare for his first postpartum
[18:56] How you can help your partner to step out and seek help
[23:33] Compassion fatigue; getting the perspective from a non-biased party
[25:56] Postpartum for Men; Ways to enhance inclusion, so our partners don't feel like a third wheel.
[33:31] Mental health can show up differently; know what your partner is going through
[37:52] If you're struggling, you're not alone and don't go through it alone, reach out and get help
Website: https://www.eliweinsteinlcsw.com/podcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedudetherapist/?
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-weinstein-lcsw-
Email: eliweinsteinlcsw@gmail.com


It's been another record year of new apps hitting the market and now that the year is coming to a close it's easier to see which apps have stood out among the crowd. Here's our pick for some of the best apps to check out if you haven't already this year.
Tasker is a great app to have on your phone if you get tired of performing the same actions again and again on your phone. You can pretty much use it whatever your imagination can come up with, as long as you set things up right. For example, if you want to turn off your cellular data whenever you are at home using your WiFi you can set up the app so this automatically happens.
LastPass has been around for awhile for the desktop but has enjoyed a year of big growth thanks to its mobile app. This allows you to have one master password to remember, allowing LastPass to remember all of the other passwords. The great part is you can have it generate really strong passwords and then remember them for you so that it will be very hard for others to get into your account but really easy for you.
If you've been looking for a great to-do list app in the Google Play Store you should check out Any.do. It has a really simple and easy to use interface, but it is actually really powerful as well. It is designed not only to make you more productive but also to help organize things better so that you are more effective at doing the things you do best.
You'll never be stuck without something to read or check out when you use the Blendle app. It curates really interesting articles from your favorite sources and present them in a way that makes it fun to read, kind of like a magazine. This will automatically update so you get fresh content at your fingertips without having to browse around for it.
After you use SwiftKey for awhile you will wonder how you ever got by without it. It is the keyboard app to replace all other keyboard apps and you'll find yourself not having to go back and correct incorrect autocorrects nearly as much. It is great at guessing what you're going to type next and can be a real time-saver.
When you want to clear your mind a bit in the middle of a hectic work day you'll be glad you downloaded the Headspace app. It's becoming more and more popular to be mindful, and there are many apps that are designed to help you with guided meditation, but Headspace takes a more pragmatic approach and you may find this more to your liking if you've tried similar apps and didn't like them.
The IFTTT app is really fun to explore and can help you automate many things in your life, both on your phone and around your home. It can help sync up your smartphone with other smart devices in your home, controlling lights, Amazon Echo, Google home, and more. It can even send data to your Google spreadsheets without you having to do anything.


Results of the AJC bi-annual General Election have been announced. We received 34 nominations. All positions were acclaimed. The new GC Reps will officially assume their role following the adjournment of the Governing Council meeting at the April 19, 2012 meeting.
Congratulations to the newly acclaimed Governing Council Representatives.
Anyone wishing to dispute the results of such elections should forward their objection and basis of their objection to the AJC Election Officer at admin@ajc-ajj.ca within 14 days following the date of this notice.


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Q: Drag and drop doesn't work between host and VirtualBox on Windows 7 My host is 64 bit Windows 7 bit where my VirtualBox is running 32 bit Windows 7. I have installed guest services and I have enabled drag and drop in Settings >> General >> Advance to bidirectional.
I can copy/paste text file between host and virtual box and copy/paste or drag/drop doesn't work.
I have tried one of the solution here by Sam there (Kill VBoxTray.exe) but it didn't work. I see other threads like this but there are no answer.

A: Open windows explorer as administrator and drag from there:

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*Locate explorer.exe

*Right click, run as administrator

Tested on 5.1.8, host and guest both windows 7 x64, using guest additions.
Note: You might need to shutdown and start again the guest os, at least for me the guest bugs badly when I try to drag a file from a non UAC explorer window.


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Talia Schlanger joins the World Cafe team straight from CBC, Canada's public broadcaster, where she hosted a triple-A radio show on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Before that, the Toronto native worked as a radio and TV journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and, earlier, as an actress on Canadian shows including Degrassi: The Next Generation. On stage, she was cast in the first U.S. national tour of Green Day's American Idiot musical. She says, "Like our listeners, I'm here as a music fan first. Discovering, sharing and connecting over artists is our collective passion, and it's my mission to serve that as best I can on World Cafe. David Dye is so beloved and respected because for 25 years, audiences have been able to feel the genuine curiosity, excitement and care he has for the music he plays and for the artists who make it. I know this is a big change, but I hope our devoted World Cafe crowd will feel the same degree of passion and care coming from me as we charge forward with amps blaring."


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The Passing of Ukulele Ray
I am very saddened upon hearing the news that Ukulele Ray has passed.
About 6 months ago I started getting replies to some of my Instagram posts from someone named Ukulele Ray. He had seen my Instagram posts and since we were both located in San Diego he invited me up his house to jam.
At the time I had never heard of Ukulele Ray, but based on his posts I could tell he was quite a character. We communicated back and forth, but were unable to get together.
A month later I got another message from him, inviting to come jam with him at a gig he had somewhere in San Diego. It sounded fun, but I was out of town and unable to make it.
Through social media, I was starting to get more familiar with Ukulele Ray. He liked every one of my posts and his photos showed up on my Instagram feed every day.
Around December 2017, he again invited me to come and jam with him at his studio. Again, it was something that interested me, but it just didn't work out.
In January 2018, I was at the NAMM show in Anaheim, CA visiting with the guys at KoAloha and guess what? I looked a few booths down the aisle and there stood Ukulele Ray. He was very tall, probably around 6'4′ and hard to miss with his long black hair, red Beatles Sgt. Peppers coat, and a bigger than life personality.
I strolled down and introduced myself. He recognized me right away, but the funny thing was, he didn't know my name he just knew me as Uke Like The Pros.
As he was setting up to play we talked for a bit. He showed me some of the swag that he had at his booth including some neon yellow banjuleles he was selling, the original Fender ukulele that he helped design (you know the ukulele that Fender sells that has a headstock like a Telecaster), and his ukulele book "Ukulele for Guitar Players" that he published with Hal Leonard. We hung out for a half an hour and again agreed to get together.
Then one night in early march while I was staying at an Airbnb in Los Angeles when I got a private message from Ukulele Ray. He said he needed to ask me something. Although the conversation went back and forth for a while, he asked me if I would join his band. His lead ukulele player was leaving and he wanted me take over.
Although my schedule is fairly packed and it's hard to make big time commitments, it sounded like fun and I wanted to start gigging more. So I agreed and again we talked about getting together to jam and better get to know one another.
So finally, on Monday March 12th, on my way back from class I stopped by Ukulele Ray's house. He led me into his ukulele museum and I was completely blown away.
He had converted a granny flat apartment (that I think use to be a garage) into a shrine for ukuleles. Every single inch was covered by ukuleles. There were easily 300 ukuleles hanging on the walls, leaning up against the walls, and set up on stands. I'm serious when I say every inch of the place was covered with ukuleles.
He had every kind of ukulele you can imagine. Old ones, new ones, funny shaped ones, home-made ones, toy ones, plastic ones, red ones, painted ones, Beatles ones, double neck ones, electric ones, lunch box ones, cigar box ones, Campbell's Soup ones, and even a ukulele he got from his grandpa.
Besides ukuleles he had all sorts of ukulele memorabilia and instruments that included a suitcase drum set he created. He figured out how to get an entire drum set to fit in an old suitcase that could be taken to a gig, unpacked, and played. Pretty cool.
I was breath taken and ask him if he would go through every instrument of the room and help me comprehend what I was looking at.
So, we took the next hour or so and he showed me and described each instrument and piece of memorabilia in the room.
By the way, Ukulele Ray also did hundreds of impressions, so every few minutes he would start talking like George Harrison or Barney Fife.
After the tour, we started to jam a bit and see how we gelled together. We played a few Neil Diamond songs "Sweet Caroline" and "I'm a Believer", "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, and "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" by Otis Redding. I played my KoAloha tenor and he played with really old Martin soprano. We actually had a nice chemistry as he sang and strummed chords, while I did some lead lines and sang backup.
I also got to meet Olivia, his lovely girlfriend.
But what touched me more than anything was his story. Although he had this larger than life personality, with costumes, and impressions, I was interested in the true person under the Ukulele Ray persona.
He told me the story of when he got cancer and was in the hospital for a year. His health got so bad that he was taken to hospice and given only a few hours to live. Somehow by the grace of God he found the strength and courage to fight and live.
He miraculously overcame his sickness and began the road to recovery. He claims that it was his ukulele, that never left his side, was the thing that saved him.
After this I knew that no matter how Ukulele Ray portrays himself on social media or to the public, that he was a kind soul and a true inspiration.
We decided that we would do a gig together on Saturday April 14th and continue to build our relationship.
As he walked me to my car he gave me a hug and said "I love you." It was strange because people say they love people all the time but, I felt that Ukulele Ray was being sincere.
Come Thursday April 5th we scheduled a rehearsal for Monday April 9th (today) to prepare for our gig on Saturday April 14th. Little did I know this would be the last time I spoke to Ukulele Ray.
This tragic news has taken the breath out of me, like a blow to the stomach. It reminds me, and I feel like I just said this a few months ago in an email to you, that life is short, life is precious, we have to treat people kindly, and we have to make a positive difference in as many lives as we can.
I have some selfish thoughts about wishing I would have gotten together more with Ukulele Ray and develop our relationship. But, I am honored to have been able to share the limited time I had with him and I truly pray that he rests in peace.
If you are interested there is a Go Fund Me page set up for Ukulele Ray to help his family with the cost of the funeral.
Support Ukulele Ray Go Fund Me Page
Thank you for letting me get some feelings out and please say a prayer for Ukulele Ray and his family.
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This research draws out common experiences and broad lessons from three pilot interventions which focused on very hard-to-help individuals, exposed to serious social exclusion.
The three pilots were the Next Steps Test Bed Regional Pilots, the ACE Pilots, and Exit to Work.
The study explored the Department for Work and Pension's departmental responsibilities, and the Pilots' approaches to improving employment prospects.


Yoga is for everyone. It's a unique inward and personal journey, and we are here to give you our best support. With small classes, modified poses, satisfying sequences, and hands on adjustments, we meet you on the mat. We value the tradition of yoga and deeply believe that consistent practice is the only way to find our own healing power within. We are small, simple, and straightforward. It's very friendly community. You don't need to be fancy or bendy to join us. Everyone is welcome.


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For almost ten years now, there's been growing anxiety in the writing community about the "publishing crunch." Essentially, what's happened is this: publishers find themselves in increasing financial peril; they need to make money, so they try to make safe bets.
The result for readers is a "narrowing of the breadth and depth and diversity of our culture: the quieting of all but the blandest voices, the elimination of all but the safest choices." The result for writers is that every year it gets harder to publish. Bestsellers reign supreme, and midlist (or mid-career) authors have been shunted down the pecking order, taking the place that beginning writers used to occupy. As small presses (the home of many first-time authors) die in huge numbers, first-time authors may find themselves out in the cold.
It's a kind of death of the middle class, but within the microcosm of our industry.
There are many reasons for the crunch: the publishing industry's antiquated returns systems, the growth of the big-box store and mega-distributor, the rise of e-books and internet retailers, and the influence of ever-larger publishing giants.
A writer calling herself Jane Austen Doe, described the crunch for Salon.com in 2004:
In the 10 years since I signed my first book contract, the publishing industry has changed in ways that are devastating — emotionally, financially, professionally, spiritually, and creatively — to midlist authors like me. You've read about it in your morning paper: Once-genteel "houses" gobbled up by slavering conglomerates; independent bookstores cannibalized by chain and online retailers; book sales sinking as the number of TV channels soars. What once was about literature is now about return on investment. What once was hand-sold one by one by well-read, book-loving booksellers now moves by the pallet-load at Wal-Mart and Borders — or doesn't move at all.
So what is a junior or mid-career writer to do? Perhaps you're not ready to jump into self-publishing (and I think there are many reasons not to), yet find yourself agentless and therefore shut out of the above-mentioned conglomerate publishing world? Perhaps you don't want to write about vampires or celebrities or weight loss. Well, there's one corner of the publishing world that remains a meritocracy (that is, publishing decisions are made largely based on the literary value of a work) and where good writing can still find a home. This is the world of the university press.
University presses publish a large number of books that would never see the light of day otherwise. These presses and the texts they disseminate are important for our culture, our memory, and for the way that future generations will regard us.
Contrary to popular belief, university presses don't only publish dry treatises and technical works. In fact, a huge number of university presses publish non-scholarly texts. Many publish creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, fiction, and even children's and Y/A literature. Most publish regional fiction — the University of Nebraska Press has a series about the American West; Indiana UP about Indiana; Queens-McGill UP about Canada.
When I was looking for a home for my first book, Silence is Death — it's a hybrid text (part memoir, part literary analysis, part biography) — I submitted proposals to 13 university presses. 12 said no thanks, but the University of Nebraska press asked to see more. Nebraska is a major publisher of creative nonfiction and memoir, as well as colonial French history, so we seemed a good fit for one another. I ended up publishing the book with them, and my editor at the press made it clear that she was interested in anything else I wrote.
Now, to a writer, there's nothing quite as valuable as having a champion for your work.
While struggling to finish my second book, I had coffee with my U Nebraska editor who had been so supportive of me the first time around. I was feeling frustrated. My book had stalled while I was trying to force it into a form that seemed more mainstream to me, but it hadn't worked. Finally, I'd given in and started once again to write from my gut. I was having fun, but the book seemed weird, and this worried me.
"I wanted to write a straight book this time around," I confessed.
My editor laughed and shook her head. "Why would you want to do that, when you can do what you do?"
I went home with renewed energy and confidence and finished the book.
Long story short: the manuscript sailed through peer review at the University of Nebraska Press (if you don't know this works, see my earlier post here), and here I am, many months later, waiting for the birth of my second book, Epistolophilia.
University presses will not be an appropriate match for every writer. If you write genre fiction, for example, it won't be a good fit. But, if your stuff is smart (calm down, I'm not saying that genre writers and writing aren't smart, just that these are not what university presses publish!), researched, and literary, you may find a home there, and you will find yourself in good company. (My own press, for example, publishes a former US poet laureate and two Nobel Prize winners.)
When submitting to a university press, you generally don't need an agent. Go to their website and read their submission guidelines carefully, then follow them to the letter. At the proposal stage, send out as many queries as you want (but always according to each press's individual guidelines). Once a press has solicited your MS (that is, they ask to see the entire book), the accepted etiquette is to send the entire book to only one press at a time.
Here's a list of university presses that publish in areas other than strict scholarship:
Baylor University Press nonfiction, children's books
Capilano University Editions poetry, anthologies
Carnegie Mellon University Press poetry, fiction, short stories, nonfiction, drama
Cleveland State University Poetry Center poetry
Harvard University Press poetry, fiction
Kent State University Press poetry, chapbooks, fiction, nonfiction
McGill-Queen's University Press poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, drama
Miami University Press fiction, poetry
Michigan State University Press poetry
Northeastern University Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography
Northwestern University Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction
Ohio State University Press poetry, short fiction
Ohio University / Swallow Press poetry, nonfiction
Oxford University Press USA fiction, nonfiction, children's/YA books
San Diego State University Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art
Southeast Missouri State University Press fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Southern Methodist University Press fiction, creative nonfiction
Stephen F. Austin State University Press poetry, fiction
Temple University Press art, coffee table books, sports
Texas Tech University Press poetry, fiction
Trinity University Press regional nonfiction
Truman State University Press poetry
University of Akron Press poetry, nonfiction
University of Arkansas Press poetry
University of Chicago Press poetry
University of Iowa Press poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press fiction
University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction
University of New Orleans fiction, poetry
University of South Carolina Press creative nonfiction
University of Tampa Press poetry
University of Tennessee Press fiction
University of Utah Press poetry
University of Virginia Press regional nonfiction, poetry
The University of Wisconsin Press poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
University Press of Kentucky poetry, regional nonfiction
University Press of Mississippi regional nonfiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography
Wesleyan University Press poetry, nonfiction
West Virginia University Press/Vandalia Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction
Western State College Press poetry, fiction, nonfiction, anthologies
Utah State University Press fiction, poetry, folklore, regional nonfiction
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