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TCLEOSE Master Peace Officer Requirements
By: Kathy Moore
How to Get TCLEOSE Certification in San Antonio
As of June 2011, there were 74,934 peace officers appointed in Texas, according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). TCLEOSE provides the certification, licensing, training and program development for peace officers throughout the state. Master peace officer is the highest level that a Texas peace officer can currently achieve, according to Basic Peace Officer Training Supervisor Romeo Gomez.
Automatic Certification
According to TCLEOSE commission rules § 221.1 and 221.3, which went into effect on Jan. 5, 2011, once an active licensed or appointed peace officer has met all the requirements for master peace officer, a proficiency certificate will automatically be generated and mailed to the appointing agency. Documentation of completion must be present in the individual's Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Data Distribution System (TCLEDDS) record for certification to proceed. Master certification means that the officer has met all the requirements for basic, intermediate and advanced peace officer certification.
Education Hours and Service Years
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In the process of completing the lower certifications, master peace officers will have completed a requisite number of training hours and years of service. To be master certified, officers may have completed 1,200 training hours and 20 years of service, 2,400 training hours and 15 years of service, 3,300 training hours and 12 years of service, or 4,000 training hours and 10 years of service.
Alternately, the peace officer may have an associate's degree and 12 years of experience, a bachelor's degree and nine years of experience, a master's degree and seven years of experience, or a doctorate or JD and five years of experience.
Advancement to Intermediate
To advance through the levels of certification, a master peace officer will have taken either "Personnel Orientation by Department" or "Peace Officer Field Training" as part of basic certification. To complete intermediate certification, she will have completed coursework in child abuse prevention and investigation; crime scene investigation; use of force; arrest, search and seizure or Spanish for law enforcement or identity crimes or a chief's course; asset forfeiture; racial profiling or a combination of the two of the chief's course. Additionally, one course must be completed in train-the-trainer, crisis intervention, basic peace officer instructor training, CIT update, mental health, continuing or new chief's course, or continuing education for constables. After September 2009, additional course requirements were added in special investigative topics and cultural diversity.
Advanced Certification
To complete the step before master certification, an active duty licensed or appointed peace officer must complete either the certified instructor's train-the-trainer course, crisis intervention training, mental health peace officer training or, as of September 2005, the basic peace officer CIT component. If intermediate certification was issued before Sept. 1, 2005, crisis intervention training must be completed. To achieve advanced certification, a peace officer must have completed as little as 800 hours of training and 12 years of service, up to 2,400 hours of training, an associate's degree and six years of service, or a bachelor's degree or higher with five years of service.
Romeo Gomez; Training Supervisor, Alamo Area Regional Law Enforcement Academy; San Antonio
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Kathy Moore began writing for pay in 1999. As a former wellness center director and a Board Certified hypnotist, her writing centers around small business, holistic health and the power of the subconscious mind. Moore earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.


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With stricter codes and new standards calling for increased use of green building materials, as well as the AIA 2030 Challenge to create carbon neutral and net-zero energy buildings, Star has the products to help meet these needs.
Cool Colors for Metal Roofing
Star offers cool paint colors for all of our metal roof panels. When properly used, considering the environment and the slope of the roof, a cool roof can reduce energy consumption, providing significant cost savings while helping to mitigate urban heat islands.
This green building material offers Solar Reflectivity ratings and Solar Reflectance Index numbers to show the ability of our paint coatings to reflect and emit the sun's energy. Solar Reflectivity (SR) or reflectance is the ability of a material to reflect solar energy from its surface back into the atmosphere. The SR value is a number from 0 to 1.0. A value of 0 indicates total absorbance and 1.0 indicates complete reflection. ENERGY STAR requires SR testing of both new and aged roof products. New products must have an SR value of 0.25 or higher for steep slope roofing (above 2:12) and an SR value of 0.65 or higher for low slope roofing (2:12 or less). Aged testing takes three years to complete, so not all products that meet the initial requirements are qualified.
The Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) is used to determine compliance with LEED requirements and is calculated according to ASTM E 1980 using values for reflectance and emissivity. To meet LEED requirements, a roofing material must have an SRI of 29 or higher for steep slope roofing and a value of 78 or higher for low slope roofing when evaluated under medium wind conditions.
Insulated metal panels qualify as green building materials for a number of reasons. First, they have high R-values which provide superior thermal performance and reduced energy consumption. This allows for smaller greenhouse gas emissions and reduced energy costs for building owners. IMPs mitigate thermal drift, a degradation of R-values over time. Thermal drift is common when using un-faced polyisocyanurate rigid board insulation, which can lose up to 20 percent* of its R-value within two years. *Based on ASHRAE 90.1 recommended value (R=5.6 per inch) versus typical manufacturer's claim (R=7 per inch). Insulated metal panels will keep a constant R-value for 20 or more years because of their impermeable metal skins.
Insulated metal panels qualify as continuous insulation (ci) where required by the International Energy Conservation
Code® (IECC) and ASHRAE 90.1. This allows for insulation to be free from significant thermal bridging. Because of their unique self-sealing side joints, Eco-ficient™ panels also function as an important part of a Continuous Air Barrier (CAB) system.
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Star's NuRoof® retrofit roofing system, another green building material, uses light-gauge framing in combination with our metal roofing panels, which are coated in cool paint colors. When applied over an existing roof with a specified slope, a retrofit system improves the reflectivity and emissivity, provides water runoff solutions and increased the insulation in a roof. NuRoof® is ideally suited for a wide-range of substrates including steel, wood or concrete.
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Star Building Systems' metal roofs provide an ideal substrate for solar arrays and offer unique environmental and performance advantages. The flat surfaces incorporated into various roof panel profiles allows Star to support two PV offerings, including glass-based crystaline silicon and flexible thin film. Existing and new metal roofs make ideal substrates for PV systems since they can be installed without roof penetrations.

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Cătălin Hrițcu is a tenured faculty member and head of the Formally Verified Security group at the new Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum, Germany. He is particularly interested in formal methods for security (secure compilation, compartmentalization, memory safety, security protocols, information flow), programming languages (program verification, proof assistants, dependent types, formal semantics, mechanized metatheory, property-based testing), and the design and verification of security-critical systems (reference monitors, secure compilation chains, tagged architectures). He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant on formally secure compilation, and is also actively involved in the design of the F* verification system, which is used for building a formally verified HTTPS stack. Catalin received a PhD from Saarland University, a Habilitation from ENS Paris, and was previously also a Tenured Researcher at Inria Paris, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond.
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Australia: The Intellectual Property Safe Harbour (1975 – 2019) R.I.P.
The legislation removing the intellectual property safe harbour from the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 was passed by Parliament and received the Royal Assent on 12 March, 2019. This means that there is now a period of 6 months within which businesses are expected to review their existing arrangements and make any refinements required to maintain the legality of those arrangements.
This review will need to be comprehensive because the removal of the safe harbour could render currently lawful arrangements unlawful and, in a worst case scenario, giving effect to them, criminal conduct. Arrangements involving competitors will be the most sensitive. Given that the Act prescribes that each related company of a party to an arrangement is deemed also to be a party and that a "competitor" includes anyone or their related companies who would be a competitor but for an arrangement between them, scenarios where a licensor continues to produce the licensed goods or provide the licensed services either directly or through its related companies, or is capable of doing so but does not, require particular attention.
A typical example would be a franchise operation where the franchisor or its related companies have their own outlets. In such systems, even territorial restrictions are likely to require authorisation from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to maintain their legality. This is an unfortunate consequence of the Government introducing legislation covering only half of the recommendation in relation to the safe harbour made by the expert committees on whose recommendations the legislation is based.
Further complicating matters is the fact that any review of existing arrangements will need to ascertain whether the "purpose" of a provision was a prescribed purpose. The courts have held that the purpose in this context is to be determined on a subjective and not an objective basis. This means that the intentions of the people who negotiated the particular arrangement are critical in determining why a particular provision was included in an agreement.
Whilst agreements with competitors and deemed competitors are the most sensitive, any intellectual property licence or assignment agreement will need to be assessed and a determination made as to whether the inclusion of a provision was for the purpose, or had the effect or likely effect, of substantially lessening competition in a relevant market unless the agreement is only between related companies or has been granted authorisation by the ACCC.
If you have entered into any arrangement involving the licensing or assignment of any intellectual property rights (whether or not involving a competitor or deemed competitor), then you will need to review these arrangements to ensure they do not fall foul of the Act after 12 September, 2019. If they do or are likely to, it may be necessary to apply for authorisation from the ACCC. The cost of applying for authorisation from the ACCC in non-merger matters is $7,500.00.
This article was written by Rodney De Boos, who has also previously reported on this matter and can be seen here.
Rodney will be doing a seminar on the removal of the safe harbour, the details of which can be found here.
The use of the mark by the licensee did not qualify as "authorised use" due to lack of control by the trade mark owner.


1) It can open and save audio files of these formats, "wav", "au", "snd" and "raw". It can read and write "Mp3" files with the help of external command line encoder. You can save part of the wave in to a new file. In case of wav files it opens instantly with out a long time delay. You can open many files in many windows. Using wave files you can work for all kind of audio requirements and you can use mp3 format to save your hard disk space or save internet bandwidth.
2) Record and play the wave sounds. You can play the sound with variable speed by setting the tempo/speed %. You can play the audio forward and backwards, while playing you can instantly U-Turn play. You can play a selected part of a file (left or right channel separately etc.). Quick play function allows you to jump to any place to start playing just by a click. Separate play selection supported that allows you to select a different range and play with not disturbing the main selection. You can record a long range up to the maximum file size supported. You can record your own voice and edit as you need, You can test another song and modify as you like, test run a song in slow speed, fast speed or reverse for fun.
3) Huge file editing supported. You can work on or record a long audio file up to 2GB (2048mb) size (for 16 bit file). This will allow you to work on a file of duration 3 hours and 20 minutes of CD quality Stereo file (higher duration if the file is mono or lower sampling rate). When the hard disk space is limited it informs you in advance and allows you to clear files to continue. You can bring in the complete CD content in to one file and edit directly in it.
4) Normal editing operations: cut, copy, delete, trim, paste-replace, paste-insert, paste multiple insert (looping). Additional editing operations: paste-mix, paste modulate, paste cross fade. Use it to delete unwanted portion (that part you don't like) in a song, add another part from another song as you like, mix your own vocal sound in to it, or remove click sounds etc..
5) A good bookmarking system is in use. You can bookmark a selected portion or view and reuse the same bookmark as needed. You can name the bookmarks with remark and can save and recall the bookmarks. While the audio is playing you can use few short cut keys to bookmark at the currently playing location pointed by the running cursor. This makes easy for you to mark a portion to work later, quickly mark a position accurately while hearing the play even wit closed eyes with short cut keys.
6) Transform operations: Reverse, invert, move-up/down, move-forward/back, inter-change channels, channel mix etc. This helps you to manipulate/modify the sound.
7) Re-formatting, re-sampling: You can change the sound format. Changing between stereo and mono, 8bit and 16 bit. Re-sampling to different sampling rates. You can change the size of the file by entering a new duration. Save the file size by reducing the quality, or increase the quality to mix with other high quality song.
8) Volume Processing: Maximize, Quick fade in, fade out, set to predefined valued to 200%, 160%, 120%, 85%, 70%, 50% or 25% (all for selected area), you can choose either to change or optimize the volume to any given %. You can balance volume like gradually increasing or decreasing to a defined two different % valued. Decide at what volume each part/portion of the song should be heard.
9) Special effects Equalize, Echo, Modulate, Stretch/Shrink/Change-speed and Delete-silence. Manipulate the complete music with all these new effects.
Equalize - No of bands in the equalizer can be adjusted as you need. Knock down the unwanted instrument or voice sound with equalizer. Improve those sounds you like.
Echo - You can add multiple echoes and also with reducing hi-fi sound. Bring in more fun with echo.
Modulate - add modulation effect with hi frequency sound on a low-fi (or drawn) wave form, you can create special sounds with this. Try modulating your voice with an instrument sound (or with a plainly generated wave) and see how your voice becomes robotic, synthesized sound.
Stretch/Shrink - You can vary the frequency or change pitch form one note to other with this effect. Make the child to sing and make it like grand father's and vise versa - great fun.
Delete silence - You can delete only the portion where the volume is low or silent. When you have many unwanted silence or low volume portions, use this command to clean up automatically.
10) Generate: add sine wave with one or two frequency (changing from one to other), multi frequency noise, silence etc. Generate simple sounds to start with, and use these as base to merge with other.
11) Draw: you can directly draw the wave form by using mouse on it, like painting/writing. This is useful for repairing noise, removing click sound and creating special sounds. You have always seen the wave going up down, why not draw with pen and let it go as you like. Try drawing some lines and apply modulate effect to hear some thing new.
12) For viewing there are zoom options, zoom with mouse select, zoom at mouse click, zoom-in, zoom-out, zoom 1:1, zoom all. And it is possible place bookmark and go to a bookmark. There is a special "Band volume view" dynamically showing the volume of each frequency band at mouse position, this helps in selecting at the valley or peak. Simple and easy to use methods to go in and out, left right, or any way you want to call it.
13) Unlimited Undo operations. You can undo many steps reverse after modifying using any of the operations said above. And you can clear part or full of the undo data to recover the disk space when needed. This undo option can be kept on or off. Made a mistake (or a test that failed) don't worry always you can be back to the past.
File types: wav, au, snd and raw. Also mp3 - with external encoder.
Sample size: 8 bits and 16 bits.
Flexible sampling rate: You can use any sampling rate. It handles 11025, 22050, 44100, 48000, 32000, 24000, 16000, 12000 and 8000 Hz with menu. And all other custom sampling rates can be entered in the range 1 to 200 kHz.
Most common format used for CD quality is 16 bit, 44100 Hz, Or you want to mix with avi movie use 48000 Hz.
Automated broadcasting player/recorder plays WAV, MP3 fading, overlap etc. Scheduled recording or playing/switching to externals. Demo runs on 30 minute intervals.
LP Recorder has been designed specifically to record vinyl LPs to CD-standard WAV files. These can subsequently be converted to MP3 files or stored on CD.
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Share Your Jokes And Help The Jimmy Fund
12-year-old Maxwell Surprenant of Needham, Mass., recently started the My Joke for Jimmy Challenge and is encouraging others to join him via social media.
1. Take a video of yourself telling a joke
2. Share it on Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #MyJokeforJimmy
3. Make a donation to the Jimmy Fund. Then tag three friends and ask them to do the same.
Well-known Bostonians have participated in the campaign including actress Eliza Dushku, business leaders as well as WCVB-TV/Channel 5 news personalities to support the Jimmy Fund which raises money solely to support pediatric and adult cancer care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
"I believe we have to fight cancer with something more powerful – love, laughter, care, creativity and hope," said Surprenant. "It is important to me that everyone, young and old, can participate in the My Joke for Jimmy Challenge and make a difference. Spreading positivity is good for the spirit, and laughing is healthy."
The challenge stems from an idea that Surprenant and his family entered into the Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest in June 2015. His idea was selected as the winner from more than 200 entries from 19 states.
"The Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest showcased some incredibly creative ideas and it's exciting to see them implemented," said Susan S. Paresky, senior vice president for development at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. "We are thrilled to be the recipient of Maxwell's creativity and goodwill of this campaign and hope that many more people will post a joke and raise money for the Jimmy Fund."
As part of the Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest the five finalists were assigned a mentor to provide initial feedback and direction prior to the final presentations. Suprenant was mentored by Bill Fine, President & General Manager, WCVB-TV / Channel 5.
"I applaud Maxwell, an exceptionally bright, engaging and talented young man, for being the mastermind behind the #MyJokeForJimmy campaign. I met Maxwell while judging the Jimmy Fund's Big Ideas contest and am so pleased to see his 'big idea' come to fruition," said Bill Fine, WCVB President and General Manager. "All of us at WCVB are proud to support this viral campaign that is fueled by humor, in order to combat cancer and raise much needed money for the Jimmy Fund."
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Tetsuya Hirota
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Tetsuya Hirota was born in 1947 and has been an engineer in the field of auto paint development for a long time. He has been enthusiastically growing clematis since he was in his 30's. He is one of the leading amateur growers of clematis in Japan.
He has been charmed by clematis ever since he first saw a pot of them blooming beautifully at his brother's house. He started to grow clematis from seed when he was in his mid 40's and his first success became commercially available as 'Yatsuhashi'. Later he produced numerous new cultivars: the most well-known is probably 'Fukuzono'.
He plants over 10000 seeds in pots and later he puts them in the ground. Then the selected plants are transferred to pots to manage closely. He organizes his plants by the year and numbers each plant. He selects the special plants and names them. Many of his clematis have been exhibited at the Tokai Clematis Conferences and Exhibits and Japan's leading clematis specialist, Mr. Hiroshi Hayakawa, whom Mr. Hirota admires as his teacher, introduced some of Mr. Hirota s original clematis to the world.
Mr. Hirota says that if a lot of seeds are planted, there are definitely some that would grow beautifully. However, managing many plants is getting to be a hard task so now he wants to concentrate on producing specific kinds that he likes.
He is eager to experiment in different ways to grow clematis and to try various methods to multiply his plants. He organizes his plants in detail and checks carefully the shapes of leaves that might be altered from the parent plants and put them separately. He utilises skills and technical approaches learnt from his engineering background to grow beautiful clematis plants.
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Humana creates exclusive radio service for all employees
By Shannon Cogan | June 17, 2019 at 4:22 PM EDT - Updated June 17 at 8:47 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - What do you listen to in the morning? Do you think it's the same thing that gets co-workers going? If you work at one local company, the answer might be yes.
"It's your man, DJ Reggie Reg from the DJ Reggie Reg morning show," Reggie Reg, whose real name is Reginald Gaston, says into the microphone.
DJ Reggie Reg is on Humana Radio from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. every Monday through Friday. (Source: WAVE 3 News)
He says he has a few goals for his morning show, which is on from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday.
"To really bring people together... wake them up... make them want them to smile," Gaston Says.
His listeners love him.
"Reggie has a great voice and great personality and the guests he has and the way he engages with them he brings them in," said Kim Roley, a dedicated listener.
So, where can you catch it? On Humana Radio.
Launched one month ago, it's streamed to the nearly 50,000 Humana employees around the country, including the 10,000 in Louisville, where the studio is located.
Trey Pennington is the Manager of Audio Visual Services for Humana. (Source: WAVE 3 News)
"It really, literally, is like a regular, normal, real radio morning show," Trey Pennington, Manager of Audio Visual Services for Humana said. "We're using the exact same equipment."
Pennington also joins DJ Reggie Reg on the microphone each morning. He says while researching this he discovered Humana may be one of the few, if not only, Fortune 500 companies with their own radio station.
"We stream to anyone on the Humana network," Pennington said. "All of our associates can listen where ever they are at. Whether they work at home or any of our locations."
In addition to music, Humana information is shared and employees can call in.
"I'm actually able to meet people throughout the entire company through the radio that I would have never met before," frequent listener Jennifer Guldenschuh said.
Sammy Porras checks in from his office in Puerto Rico.
"I just check in say Hi. Buenos Dias! Hope everyone is having an awesome day," Porras said.
The rest of the day is filled with music and podcasts by employees. The podcasts are actually what launched the idea of Humana Radio. Pennington says they were trying to find a place to store all the podcasts and give people a way to listen to them.
But each weekday morning, it's DJ Reggie Reg on Humana Radio.
"Where wellness never sounded so good," Reggie said with a grin.
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The main steps related to the selling of carbon credits were the following:
June 2006 : Coverage secured from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
December 2006 : Signature of an Emissions Reductions Purchase Agreement with the government of Luxemburg
January 2007 : Certification by Designated Operational Entity
March 2007 : First delivery of carbon credits
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) coverage
MIGA is one of the World Bank Group's institutions dedicated to the private sector. Its mission is to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing countries to help support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people's lives.
MIGA is supporting the Nejapa project by providing $2 million in guarantee coverage (insurance) to Biothermica. The guarantee assures the company of reimbursement in the event that a harmful political event—including expropriation, war and civil disturbance (including terrorism), and breach of contract—puts a stop to operations. This is MIGA's first-ever support for a project that will sell carbon credits gained by reducing greenhouse gas emissions
By removing non commerical risks, the MIGA coverage allowed Biothermica to optimize financing conditions while providing the company with the necessary level of comfort to commit its own capital in a country displaying political risks.
Sale of credits to the government of Luxemburg
In December 2006, Biothermica and the government of Luxemburg signed an Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement. Under this contract, both parties agreed on the modalities of the purchase, by the government of Luxemburg, of a determined amount of emissions reductions generated by the Nejapa project.
On February 6, 2007, Biothermica announced the first trade of credits, agreeing to sell 325 000 Certified Emissions Reductions to the government of Luxemburg. This trade demonstrates the ability to leverage carbon markets to bring the latest landfill gas-to-energy technology to Latin America, ultimately benefiting the global environment.


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The tweet posted an image of a curious description for a character who goes by the name of Chen Honghui. Meanwhile, the website Backstage.com shares that Honghui's part will be a lead role in which casting directors are looking for someone in their 20s who is "strapping, cocky and handsome" and can speak "fluent English and Mandarin Chinese."
Although many tidbits still remain scarce ahead of the movie's scheduled 2020 release, if this is true, it seems like the remake will divert quite a bit from the storyline of its original version. While no official news on the matter has been divulged, the recent casting call reveals that the live-action remake has plans to unveil a new love interest for the film's titular character, which fans feel will ultimately leave Shang's beloved character left behind.
Despite being excited about the film's return, fans are seemingly not here for Li Shang's departure, if this news is indeed true. Many took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the new movie's direction.
While its still unclear who is going to be cast in the role of Honghui, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that actor Gong Li has signed on to play a witch, who will apparently the villain of the new movie. The character is notably another new addition to the movie's storyline as the original version featured Shan Yu as the leader of the Huns as the animation's primary antagonist.
It seems that these new characters won't be the only appendages to the cinema's storyline as THR shares that the live-action remake will also introduce viewers to Mulan's sister, who will played by actor Xana Tang. As for other casting choices, it has been reported that Liu Yifei aka Crystal Liu will play the lead role of Mulan, while its been reported that Disney also recently cast Donnie Yen as Commander Tung, Mulan's mentor in the Chinese military. Though not officially announced as a cast member, THR also indicates that Jet Li is reportedly in final talks with the studio to play the emperor of China.
While details surrounding the new film surely sound exciting, fans seemingly have not been thrilled about the changes in casting along with the idea that this time around, Mulan might not be a musical. Many were also disappointed to learn that Mulan's release date had been pushed back to on March 27, 2020.
Whether or not the Li Shang news is true, Mulan seems to be shaping up for a triumphant return in its remake.


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HomePoliticsBiden Administration to Cuban Refugees: Sorry, You're Not Welcome Here
Biden Administration to Cuban Refugees: Sorry, You're Not Welcome Here
The US government had a simple statement for Cubans risking their lives to resist communism. Don't come here.
"Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a news conference last week.
Thousands of Cubans have taken to the streets in recent weeks with cries of "Libertad!" and "Down with the Dictatorship" in some of the largest protests in the nation's history. The protests are a visible representation of a population rising up to confront their corrupt communist government that has left them destitute, hungry, and without access to basic medicine.
In response, their leaders have worked to shut down access to the internet, where many of the people are organizing, and blamed the US for the plight of their people. According to Amnesty International's Americas director, Erika Guevara-Rosas, at least 140 people have been detained or disappeared following confrontations between state police and protestors.
Back in the US, massive demonstrations have taken place in cities across the country—from Miami and Los Angeles to Washington DC—as Americans seek to show their solidarity with those fighting for freedom just off our coast.
Hours of heavy rain on Tuesday did not put a damper on the third day of demonstrations that have erupted across South Florida in support of the uprising in Cuba. https://t.co/dSODl0mmnu
— National Review (@NRO) July 14, 2021
Right now in Miami's Little Havana. Several blocks shutdown. pic.twitter.com/vIbFbB0cBk
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) July 14, 2021
But Mayorkas struck a very different tone in his statements. In no uncertain terms, the DHS Secretary told Cubans that those who manage to reach the US by sea will be apprehended by the US Coast Guard and taken back to their home countries. And in regards to those with political asylum requests he said, "If individuals make, establish a well-founded fear of persecution or torture, they are referred to third countries for resettlement," he continued. "They will not enter the United States."
It's worth noting that Mayorkas himself is a Cuban immigrant who fled the country with his family in 1960 when he was just a year old.
The Policy Is What?
Many Americans operate under the belief that the US holds a welcoming policy to refugees and those seeking political asylum. Others were apparently still under the impression that the US had a "wet foot, dry foot" approach to Cuban immigrants who arrived by sea, which allowed Cubans who arrived without a visa to remain in the US as permanent residents.
Shouldn't they be able to claim asylum? I mean if ever there was a situation that fits into that category it would be what is happening in Cuba.
— 'Nikki Whaley'-Barowski (@DFWradiogirlie) July 17, 2021
Yes, sort of. The US has a wet foot/dry foot policy. If a Cuban makes it to dry land, they can apply for asylum. If they are intercepted at sea, they are turned back. It is illegal to enter Cuban waters and assist emigrants.
— Zap Rowsdower (@zap_rowsdower16) July 17, 2021
Much of this confusion can be blamed on the media. Though the Trump administration was seen as anti-immigrant (and rightfully so), the media painted Biden as much more sympathetic on the issue. In reality, though, the Biden and Trump policies are virtually the same. Not only that, they're also carry-overs from previous administrations such as Obama and Bush as well.
It was actually former president Obama who ended the wet foot, dry foot policy that allowed Cubans to remain in the US.
"By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries," Obama wrote in a statement at the time.
How we treat other migrants, it's important to note, is not great. It is extremely hard to immigrate to the US, contrary to popular belief, and that fact doesn't change if you are a refugee or seeking asylum.
Very few migrants are even screened for humanitarian protection in the first place, and those that are have historically been sent to the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to undergo interviews with asylum officers. If they pass that interview, they are then referred for resettlement in third countries.
To be clear, domestic law does allow those who reach the country to request asylum, but even that has been largely suspended during the pandemic and most have been expelled anyways.
#SOSCuba
There are many reasons we should hope for a change in policy as it pertains to Cuban refugees—both humanitarian and economic.
Immigrants are always a net gain for a country. They increase the number of people working in a society, something most countries are in desperate need of as birth rates continue to decline. This larger number means they increase gains from trade and make the availability of goods and services more widespread, which in turn makes things cheaper. And, immigrants create new jobs. They open businesses and hire others, stimulating even more economic growth where they go.
And the Cuban population has especially proven industrious with many entrepreneurs among their midst. Miami, where the largest number of Cuban immigrants can be found in the US, enjoys one of the nation's top rates of new business creation—much of it driven by Cubans. Entrepreneurs and celebrities like Ruth Behar, Desi Amaz, Gloria Estefan, Pitbull, Andy Garcia, Jeff Bezos' dad, and Martha of Miami are all counted among the ranks of Cuban success stories in the states.
Not only do Cubans bring wealth and economic growth to the states, their departure continues to undermine a brutal, communist dictatorship, which is why American immigration is so condemned by the regime.
It is laughable for Cuban leaders to blame their country's economic woes on the US government's embargo, essentially admitting that communism can only work through access to free trade and free markets. That isn't to say that the embargo is a just or rational policy, it is not. But it is also not the main cause of the Cuban people's plight. However, they are not totally wrong that America has undermined their regime. Millions of people have fled communist Cuba for our freer shores, taking some of the best and brightest from the country.
There's absolutely no reason freedom-loving Americans should not hope to see more Cubans arrive on our shores. Welcoming hard-working, freedom-loving people to our country should be a no-brainer. And anything we can peacefully do to break the oppression of communism should be on the table.
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith explained that free markets require free movement of labor. We don't have to fight battles overseas with our ideological opponents. The free market is powerful enough to solve the problem and break the chains of oppression without violence if we simply allow it to work.


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Posted on 29 November 2019 by Clara Watson
The temperatures are heating up, there's Christmas decorations in shops around the city and we're on the countdown to summer holidays. In our penultimate blog post for the year we're going to look back on some of our best artefacts from the past year. Enjoy!
Big is always better, or at least that's the case when we're talking about meat platters. Whoever threw away this gorgeous Royal Cottage patterned meat platter really must have needed the cupboard space, because how could you just chuck out such a beautiful piece. Image: C. Watson.
Meat platters aren't the only ceramic artefacts we've found complete this year. Here's a small section of the many complete or near-complete ceramic vessels we've uncovered during our excavations in 2019. This year we've analysed two assemblages from well-to-do families, and there definitely seems to be a correlation between wealth and willingness to throw away perfectly good dishes. I'm half of BURN THE RICH mindset, because how could people just throw these out, but also praise the rich because wealthy people throwing out vessels in the 19th century trickles down to archaeologists digging them up in the 21st century (like what I just did there, see last month's blog for more witty socialism puns). Image: C. Watson.
And while we're on the subject of ceramic vessels, we can't ignore that we've found THREE vessels this year that are fruit and vegetable themed. I give you the Pineapple Jug, the Eggplant Flowerpot and the Corn Jug. I don't really have anything else to say other than they're all a big yes from me. Image: C. Watson.
Whilst bigger is always better in the case of meat platters, the opposite is true when we're talking about children's artefacts. Here's a few of the various dolls, marbles, miniatures and other things we've uncovered this year. No matter what expression is on a doll's face, they always seem to be blushing. Image: C. Watson.
I am notoriously bias for being a big ceramic lover, but we have found plenty of bottles as well. SO MANY BOTTLES. Far more than ceramics. And many more that were complete. But also lots of fragmented ones as well. Here's a few. Image: C. Watson.
I probably shouldn't be so hard on bottles, there are some cool ones out there. Take this bad boy for example. We're pretty sure it's an ink well that is shaped like a baby carriage (but open to other suggestions on the shape). Why? Who knows. But if you need a corn jug to serve milk (or water, or something else- I'm not sure if there's a specific connection between corn shaped jugs and the specific task they were used for), then you damn well definitely need a baby carriage shaped ink well. Image: C. Watson.
This bottle is also very cool. It's a hock wine bottle (typically assumed to hold wine), but it's got a label for vinegar on it! This was cool for two reasons. Firstly, because the label meant we knew what the bottle held. Here's our blurb from the report (because when it's less than four weeks to Christmas you bet I'm copy and pasting).
The malt vinegar bottle was a hock wine bottle with a label reading "SIR ROBERT B…/ MALT V…/ VAUXHALL D…". Sir Robert Burnett and Co. were distillers and rectifiers, wine and spirit merchants and vinegar brewers operating out of the Vauxhall Distiller and Vinegar Works in London. The company was initially established as Fassett and Burnett in 1770 and were best known for their product Burnett's Old Tom Gin (Grace's Guide 2019). The Burnett's brand was first advertised in New Zealand in 1863 (Southland Times 30/10/1863: 5), with the malt vinegar first advertised in New Zealand in 1872 (Lyttelton Times 2/07/1872: 4).
Now the second reason why the bottle is cool is all to do with this advertisement here. It tells us that George Warner was the SOLE AGENT for Sir Robert Burnett and Co's Malt Vinegar (which is what the bottle was). We found that bottle on the site of the business George Warner ran, called Walton, Warner and Co. Which means, we can 100 percent, for definite (no maybes or it's likely or is strongly possible here), link the bottle with the occupant of the site. And that's cool. Image: Lyttelton Times.
We found an almost complete ginger jar. It might not be anything that special but I'm including it because I love ginger jars and it's my blog so I'll do what I want. Image: C. Watson.
Here's a heart cut out of leather. I don't know why someone made this, but I love that they did. Image: C. Watson.
Yes, you've all seen this glass basket a million times before. But I love it and it's still my favourite artefact of the year (the cartridge shell from Metro Sports is a close second though), so here it is one more time. Image: C. Watson.
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The Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement
Posted on 3 May 2019 by Clara Watson
Today on the blog we're talking about an exciting project that we've been involved with over the past few months. In 2013 the Ashburton District Council took over stewardship of the Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement on Allens Road, Ashburton, making a commitment to administer the land as a reserve and to preserve the heritage values of the property. The Ng King Brothers were Chinese market gardeners, owning and operating the largest market garden in the South Island. In its heyday the gardens served people across the Ashburton district, with over 80 people lived at the property. Today it appears to be the only Chinese market gardening settlement with original buildings still intact in New Zealand (Baird 2017: 22).
Buildings from the Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement. Image: Baird 2017: 36.
The Ng family were a group of brothers from Taishan in the Guangdong province, China. The family settled in Gore in 1905, opening a laundry and a market garden, with more family members arriving from China in 1917 (Baird 2017: 7). Market gardening had become a common occupation for Chinese following the end of most goldmining in the 1890s. The Chinese adapted the gardening skills they had brought with them to the New Zealand climate, purchasing or leasing land to grow fruit and vegetables on that they then sold at markets or in shops.
The arrival of the Ng family to New Zealand came after the main period of early Chinese immigration that took place during the 1860s Otago goldrush. Chinese miners had gained a reputation on the Australian goldfields for working hard and living frugally and were invited to the Otago goldfields following the initial rush. The first Chinese miners arrived in Otago in 1865, providing a new workforce for the region after many of the original miners had moved on to goldfields in Hokitika and Nelson. By 1872 there were 4,700 Chinese in New Zealand, with many coming directly from China rather than via the Australian goldfields (Baird 2017: 7).
The move to a foreign country with a different people, language, culture and customs must have been daunting for the Ng family. This move was likely made even more difficult by the open hostility of New Zealanders towards the Chinese. Despite the Chinese being invited to New Zealand in the 1860s, anti-Chinese sentiments had developed within the mostly white New Zealand population over the following decades. In 1881 the New Zealand government introduced a poll tax of £10 per person to discourage further Chinese immigration. This increased to £100 per person in 1896, with a reading test introduced later as well (Lam et al. 2018: 12). Further anti-Chinese legislation was introduced during the twentieth century, with a 1908 act denying the Chinese the right to become naturalised. This act remained in place until 1951, and under it Chinese had to register and report any changes to their name, address or employment with the police. Anti-Chinese settlement was strong at the start of the twentieth century, with organisations such as the Anti-Asiatic League, Anti-Chinese League, and the White New Zealand League appearing (Lam et al. 2018: 14).
A common sentiment among anti-Chinese groups was the perception that Chinese market gardeners were taking business away from European market gardeners. This view, expressed in newspapers of the time, was somewhat unfounded given Chinese fruiterers and greengrocers always made up less than half of the total fruiterers and greengrocers in New Zealand between 1874 and 1945 (Lam et al. 2018: 16). Image: Observer 12/12/1896: 11.
Following a flood that damaged their gardens in Gore, the Ng family moved to Ashburton in 1921 and established a market garden on Allens Road, trading under the name of King Bros. The name 'King' came from a mixture of the European pronunciation of Ng as 'Ning' and the name 'Kane' which was the middle part of four of the Ng brothers birth names (Baird 2017: 9). The King Bros were highly successful, and their garden became the largest in the South Island. The brothers travelled by horse and cart around the district to sell their vegetables, also running a store from one of the sheds in the yard on Allens Road. The horses and carts were replaced with trucks in the 1940s, with these travelling to Mt Somers, Mayfield, Chertsey, Rakaia, Hinds and Methven once a week to sell vegetables to the farms there (Lam et al. 2018: 113). In 1945 the King Bros established a fruit shop in Burnett Street. With the expansion of the business they began travelling to Christchurch to buy additional produce to sell at the store.
The King Bros partners in the 1930s. Image: Ashburton Museum and Historical Society Collection and Ng Family (Baird 2017: 7).
In 1964 Young King, along with his sons Yep, Hong and Tong, formed a partnership and took over the King Bros fruit shop in Burnett Street (Lam et al. 2018: 114). Young King was one of the original Ng brothers who formed the King Bros partnership. He came from the Wing Loon village in Taishan at age 15 to join his brothers in New Zealand. Like the rest of the Ng family members that were living in Ashburton, Young had a wife and children back in China, and he made several trips back to Taishan to visit them during the 1930s and 1940s. The poll-tax and other anti-Chinese legislation prevented Young from moving his family to New Zealand.
In 1938 the Japanese forces, that had previously invaded China in 1931, moved into southern China attacking the home villages of the New Zealand Chinese. Young's family village was in the south and his family were living with the threat of the Japanese. After appeals by the New Zealand Chinese Association and the Presbyterian Church, the New Zealand government allowed Chinese refugees to flee to New Zealand. Between 1939 and 1941, 249 women and 244 children made the journey to New Zealand, joining their husbands and fathers that had previously been living alone (Lam et al. 2018: 17). In 1949 Young's family was allowed to immigrate to New Zealand as war refugees and, following the legislation changes of the 1950s, the family became New Zealand citizens in 1963. The reuniting of families resulted in a new generation of Chinese New Zealanders that were born in New Zealand during and following the war years.
By the mid-twentieth century New Zealand perceptions of the Chinese had changed, and some of the outright racism seen in earlier decades had disappeared. During the war there were Chinese who enlisted to fight overseas, whilst others served the country by producing food for troops. In the 1950s the New Zealand government changed its stance on the Chinese, allowing them to become naturalised again. However, it wasn't until 1986 that the immigration status of Chinese and European migrants was made equal. In 2002 the New Zealand government apologised to the Chinese people for the racist legislation that was enacted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and established the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust as compensation.
View of a Chinese market garden during World War II. Ref: 1/4-001319-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23130866.
The 1964 partnership between Young King and his sons Yep, Hong and Tong resulted in a new period of prosperity for the business. After they had taken over the shop on Burnett Street, the father and sons gutted and refitted the store, with the 1965 grand reopening reported in the newspapers. In 1966 they expanded, opening an additional store on Harrison Street. Young and Yep managed the daily running of the shops, whilst Hong and Tong bought produce at the markets to supply the shops, wholesale orders and the country runs (Lam et al. 2018: 114). The King Bros dominated the Ashburton market, supplying hotels, dairies, grocery stores, hospitals, boarding-houses, ski lodges, shearing gangs and Ministry of Work camps with fruit and vegetables (Lam et al. 2018: 115).
Richard Yee (left) and Young King (right) in a 1957 parade. Image: Ashburton Museum and Historical Society Collection and Ng Family (Baird 2017: 9).
The King Bros were one of the most well-known businesses in Ashburton and generations of Ashburtonians purchased their vegetables from the shop on Burnett Street. However, with the advent of supermarkets, business slowed. Hong left the partnership in the early 1980s whilst Tong managed the shop on Harrison Street until it sold in 1986. Family members moved into other ventures, with several shifting out of Ashburton. Yep King continued to run the shop in Burnett Street until his retirement in 2006 (Lam et al. 2018: 116).
The settlement on Allens Road played an important role in the development of the King Bros business. Buildings on the site included bedrooms for single men, houses for families, communal eating and dining rooms, a kitchen, an office, food storage sheds, garage and work sheds, a laundry and washroom, a school room and, of course, the shop. It was the home of various generations of the Ng King family and was once a busy and vibrant community. With the closing of the business and various family members embarking on other ventures, the settlement now sits empty.
As part of the Ashburton District Council's stewardship of the property, the council has agreed to preserve the heritage values of the site. From this, Heritage New Zealand became involved in the project, and through them we were asked to volunteer our time. Whilst the Ng King Chinese Market Garden Settlement might not meet the definition of an archaeological site under the 2014 Pouhere Taonga Heritage New Zealand Act, it is still an archaeological site in its own right. Archaeology is the study of human history and culture through material remains, and is not limited to a specific time-period. Anything and everything from stone tools created by early hominids to flip-top cellphones from the early 2000s is and can be considered archaeology.
The Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement is significant for many reasons. It's important to the descendants of the family, many of whom have fond memories of the place, it's important to the Chinese community as the only known Chinese market gardening settlement that still has buildings intact, it's important to the Ashburton district with the King Bros playing a prominent role in the history of the town, and it's important to anyone who has a passion for local history and believes in the recording and protection of heritage. Treating the settlement as an archaeological site and using archaeological methods means that objects, that might be seen by some as old junk, are viewed as being part of the social fabric of the site and are properly catalogued and researched.
Our role in the project has been doing just that, cataloguing the objects that were found during some of the works at the site. We're still in the middle of analysing the artefacts, and we'll likely write a follow-up blog post later on in the year that goes into more detail on what exactly was found. But so far one of the most interesting classes of artefact material that we've found has been shoes. Lots of complete shoes, 29 so far, were recovered from the site, along with fragments from at least another 40. Shoes are one of those interesting artefacts as they're so personal. Everything from the style of shoe to the wear patterns on the sole and if it's been repaired speaks to the choices and actions of the person who wore it. It's like that saying, "walk a mile in someone else's shoes". Whilst the King Bros are still well-remembered by current Ashburton residents, that won't always be the case as more time passes. By preserving the King Bros settlement, future generations may be able to walk around the buildings, look at items like the shoes and wonder what it was like to be a Chinese worker at a market garden in the mid-twentieth century.
Some of the many shoes found at the Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement, each able to tell a different story about the person who wore it. Image: E. Warwick.
Thanks to members of the King family for their feedback on this blog post and support of the project.
Baird, A. 2017. Ashburton Chinese Settlement Allens Road, Ashburton: Heritage & Restoration Assessment. Unpublished report for the Ashburton District Council.
Lam, R., B. Lowe, H. Wong, M. Wong, C. King. 2018. The Fruits of Our Labours: Chinese Fruit Shops in New Zealand Volume 1. Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, Wellington.
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Urdu Booklist
Ek Chadar Maili Si
By Rajinder Singh Bedi
Translated into English as I take This Woman by Khushwant Singh
Ek Chadar Maili Si is a brutally honest exploration of sexuality, society and relationships marked by vivid realism and vigour of narration. It revolves around a tradition in Punjab, as part of which, the younger brother weds his elder brother's widow upon the latter's death. This tradition is called 'chadar daalna'. Compelled by custom and physical force, the male protagonist, Mangal weds his sister-in-law Rano. In their marriage ceremony Mangal places a slightly soiled, somewhat tattered three-yard cambric sheet (maili si chadar) over Rano, signifying transference of shelter and security. Initially reluctant, with time both Mangal and Rano get over their dilemma and find not merely consummation but passion also in their union. This book, which has been hailed as 'an outstanding contribution to contemporary Urdu literature for its powerful characterisation and innate humanity', received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.
Short-story writer, novelist, playwright and screenplay writer, Rajinder Singh Bedi is acknowledged as one of the most prolific Urdu writers of all time. Bedi published his first collection of stories Dana-o-Daam in 1938 and followed it with Grahan (1942) which was hailed as a landmark in Urdu short stories. His literary career of fifty years was marked with versatility and some of the finest creative writing seen in Urdu literature. He was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965, Padma Shri in 1972 and the Ghalib Award in 1978.
Aakhir-e-Shab Ke Humsafar
Gian Singh 'Shatir'
Do Gaz Zameen
Lahoo ke phool
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Air is a lead or bronze sculpture, by Aristide Maillol.

He modeled Dina Vierny in plaster in 1938, and casts were made after his death.
It is an edition of six.
Examples are located at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Jardin des Tuileries, J. Paul Getty Museum, Norton Simon Museum, and Kimbell Art Museum.

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External links

Artnet.com: Air by Maillol

Sculptures by Aristide Maillol
Sculptures of women
1938 sculptures
Lead sculptures
Nude sculptures
Outdoor sculptures in France
Sculptures in Paris
Outdoor sculptures in Greater Los Angeles
Nude sculptures in California
Sculptures of women in California
Sculptures of the Norton Simon Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum

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Have you ever tried to highlight a word and you just can't seem to get the exact characters in your highlighting?
I was typing math equations 20(x) + 60(10) = 40(x + 10) and I wanted to highlight just the (x + 10) so I could make it bigger to emphasize a point, but each time I tried to use the mouse to highlight the (x + 10) PowerPoint was bent on including the 40.
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Antique Earrings Enormous Gold Disks w attached Golden Globes India (6441)
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Antique earrings. 14k gold. Made in Gujerat, India early 20th century.
Measurements: Approximately 1 1/2 inches in diameter (more than 4cm). 7/8 inch wide. Weigh 25.6 grams.
Description : Earrings that can be seen as both a form of sculpture and personal adornment. Looking much like large spools, the earrings consist of a wide band of repousse textured gold with flattened borders at right angles to the circles of gold. Double bands of repousse beading on the borders. The surface of the gold ribbons is further embellished with clusters of golden balls or globes, some with tiny clusters of granulation on their edges. These earrings really make a statement. Very very rich. Known in Gujerat as Suluva, these earrings were worn by the Rabari of Dwarka women. Originally, women would wear these in vastly distended ear lobes, not suitable for most modern women. Amazingly, as though these enormous earrings weren't enough, they were worn in conjunction with more ear ornaments higher up on the ear. Indian jewellers have found an elegant solution that allows the earrings to be worn by modern women without compromising the original earrings' form: fine gold wires have been threaded through the ends of the earrings and ear wires attached to them. These ear wires are fine enough for anyone with pierced ears to wear. (see pictures). When we consider that a woman's jewelry was her bank, we know that the previous owners of these earrings was a woman of means.
Marks: As is to be expected of antique Indian earrings, there are no marks. We acid tested the gold, which stays for at least 14k.
Condition: Good with minor wear and small dings commensurate with age and wear. Please see enlarged pictures and don't hesitate to ask questions which we will do our best to answer.
Reference: Waltraud Ganguly's book on Earrings.


Launching or expanded this year in Texas includes Walmart's grocery pickup option, which will expand to more than 74 stores across the state by the end of the year; grocery delivery service will be added to 84 stores in the state. Walmart also plans to add 82 pickup towers to stores across the state.
In terms of technology, Walmart's Autonomous Shelf Scanner will be expanded to 25 additional stores across the state. A new system in Walmart backrooms known as Fast Unloader, which automatically scans and sorts items that come off trucks based on priority and department, will be added to 137 stores across the state. An autonomous floor scrubber that uses assisted autonomy technology to perform the task of cleaning and scrubbing the concrete floors in stores will be expanded to 171 stores across the state this year.
Nationwide this fiscal year, Walmart plans to add an additional 1,200 autonomous floor scrubbers, 300 autonomous shelf-scanners, 1,200 Fast unloaders and 900 Pickup Towers to stores across the country. Also, the company plans to expand online grocery pickup to an additional 1,000 stores and add another 800 stores across the country to the retailer's grocery delivery footprint.


Ideal for smoothing on shave cream and lifting stubble away from the skin, which allows you to achieve a clean and comfortable shave.
Features a sleek handle that is easy to maneuver while the soft man-made bristles easily allow you to prepare your beard for optimal shaving.
Included is a modern black stand for proper drying of the bristles.
Apply shaving cream directly to brush and then smooth over skin, covering all areas that need to be shaved.


There's really only one good candidate for the Bend City Council Position 6. Sarah McCormick is by far the best qualified to take over the seat currently held by Casey Roats, who is not seeking re-election.
McCormick faces two opponents for the spot. Ron "Rondo" Boozell, 57, is currently in the Deschutes County jail for his continuing failure to make court-ordered child support payments. It's the second time in the last two years he's gone to jail on similar charges.
McCormick's other opponent is Barb Campbell, 54, who currently is a member of the council. She describes herself as an activist, though one lacking in what she calls "judicial temperament." That's putting it mildly.
Her histrionic approach to City Council works not to highlight causes she cares about, but to muddle her message in a rush of dramatic gestures and temper tantrums. City residents need a councilor who can work well with a group, even one that disagrees with her. Campbell is not that person.
Sarah McCormick, 32, is, like Campbell, part of a downtown business. Her father owns the Pine Tavern restaurant, which her husband manages. With two small children to care for, she handles the restaurant's social media from home. The family has lived in Bend four years.
Her first year here, spent in an apartment above the restaurant, gave her a view of the city's homelessness issues that few others have.
She would like to see a new, Bend-focused, group take on the problem. The Homeless Leadership Coalition, which is a tri-county body, has no representative from the business community, she notes.
She also believes the city should create an advisory group to help it decide where and how to spend its money on new roads. And, if new revenue sources are needed, they should be approved in an election.
Too, she recognizes her potential conflict of interest when it comes to Mirror Pond. The Pine Tavern was built overlooking the pond in 1936, and she knows she may have to recuse herself from decisions on its fate.
In the end, though, it's McCormick's willingness to become a collaborative member of Bend's government, combined with her thoughtful views on the city and its needs, that recommend her for City Council. Voters should give her their support.


Ireland is one of those countries in the Europe region that has more robust sets of online privacy laws. However, there are still the large number of internet users that are very much concerned about their online activities and privacy. Even the access to blocked content and geo-restricted websites has been an issue in Ireland's internet world. The only solution for these problems is VPN for Ireland. Not only it will improve the internet security for you but will also help you to access the geo-restricted content using the online streaming services from UK and USA particularly. VPNs can be your best friend if you really want to access the websites that are geo-blocked or have some restriction in your region. The VPNs changes the IP address of your device and offers you to be online anonymous. This makes the life difficult for the hackers as well because they didn't manage to locate your IP address. This way you can ensure that your data is safe and your internet browsing history is hidden.
Why you need VPN in Ireland?
While the debate on the internet restrictions in Ireland is red hot, it is time for the Irelanders to apply VPN technology to good effect. Not only they will be able to access the blocked sites but they will also their overall cybersecurity. There has been a number of VPNs that has been designed especially for the residents of Ireland. The need is to do a little research and to find out the best among the rest. There are VPNs that offers a lot of VPN servers for Ireland's internet users that can be used for privacy purposes and to access the blocked sites and content.


Morris followed 923 people, aged 58–98, over 4.5 years to see who would develop dementia, and then she compared how closely they followed the MIND, Mediterranean or DASH diets based on scales of adherence. The MIND diet was associated with a 53% risk reduction for those with the strictest diet adherence and a 35% reduced risk for those with moderate diet adherence. The DASH and Mediterranean diets elicited significant reductions in cognitive decline only with the highest level of adherence. This is a notable difference: Always adhering strictly to a new way of eating isn't easy, so it's good news to see that moderate adherence to the MIND diet might be protective.
The MIND diet's specific recommendations may explain its effectiveness. As Morris notes, animal research suggests that leafy greens and berries, in particular, are protective of the aging brain, and therefore the MIND diet recommends at least two servings of flavonoid-rich berries and a minimum of six servings of vitamin-rich leafy greens per week. The DASH and Mediterranean diets, however, recommend eating a lot of nonspecific vegetables and fruit, which are still beneficial but may not be as imperative for brain health. According to Morris, evidence from the MIND study shows that those who ate the most leafy greens were 11 years younger in cognitive age than those who ate the least. Clients would benefit from including kale, mustard greens, romaine lettuce, spinach and other leafy greens on their weekly menus. As experts continue to work hard to discover new evidence about Alzheimer's, we should inform our clients about current research while keeping in mind that our understanding of primary prevention is evolving. We don't yet have all the answers, but following a MIND, Mediterranean or DASH-type dietary pattern that emphasizes berries, leafy greens, and vitamin- and mineral-rich whole foods, shouldn't be a brain buster.


They are five and two. In their short lives they have been taught gender roles at school, movies, and really any media they consume. The are forming their take on masculinity and femininity.
Diana and I got in contact forever ago because she is also a Rotterdam Photographer but ALSO an expat! My sweet Canadian friend! I went to her home in Maaslouis. I got lost on the way there of course because one day I will figure out Dutch busses. *eyeroll ha!
Okay, I get asked a TON! So I figured I would make a blog post about how I got out of America and got residency in The Netherlands. I did everything without a lawyer and it was actually really painless.
This shoot.. was AMAZING! So for those that haven't booked with me, i usually show up 5 minutes early.. not this shoot! Every year The Netherlands gets a little bit of snow but i've always stayed home. When I left Rotterdam it was barely snowing.
Rotterdam Wedding With A Bubble Exit!
Tim and Hannah! What a wonderful couple! They were so so sweet and nice from beginning to end. I couldn't have had a more fun day. I started out with Tim at his parents home in Rotterdam. Putting finishing touches on his jacket and tie..
My boys and I went on a photowalk with my colleague Jorge and we had so much fun! It was the perfect day.
I am so so happy I got the chance to do a branding photoshoot for Casper Haring Design on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam.
A few weeks ago a restaurant on Westersingel in Rotterdam reached out to meet up for me to take over their social media and do monthly photoshoots and it was AMAZING!
Blow reached out to me with an Interesting concept about managing their social media along side monthly photos of the salon. I couldnt be happier with this!
Amanda and I have been friends for years and we finally got to meet in person! She and her family traveled all the way from the UAE to Amsterdam for a 6 week destination vacation all over Europe!
The wedding of E&N was absoutly magical! I cycled to her house in Rotterdam the morning to get to work, meeting her to take a few getting ready pictures. She looked so beautiful in her wedding dress! Soon her husband came to pick her up with her father and off we went to De Machinist!
Dudok Rotterdam Bachelorette Party With Champagne Spray!
This bachelorette party was the actual best. Dudok taart, pancakes, champagne showers and a antique VW bus. Everything my little photgrapher heart could desire.
This was such a special family photoshoot for me because Marieke is one of my closest friends and my very first friend with I moved to The Netherlands!


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It's 2017, but still no roads lead to this Mahadalit village
In East Champaran's Bhatwalia Colony, the lack of road connectivity hurts the most when you become ill or are in labour pain and on your wedding day
By Virendra Kumar Gupta वीरेंद्र कुमार गुप्ता On March 9, 2017 No Comments इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ें
The trail that connects Bhatwalia Colony to the road
MOTIHARI (Bihar): The Government of Bihar might have launched a string of much-publicized programmes for the welfare of the Mahadalits but there still exists a Mahadalit settlement in East Champaran district that has no road connectivity. The Mahadalit families living in Bhatwalia Colony, which falls within the Shripur panchayat of Sugauli block, do not even have the basic facilities.
Bhatwalia Colony's residents
The people have been raising their demands at different levels but have got only assurances in return. Now, they are sick and tired of it. There are about 100 houses in the settlement. The Mahadalit families, who have been living and working here for the past several decades, have to trudge up to one and a half kilometres to reach a road. This creates a peculiar situation at the time of weddings. The bridegroom cannot ride in a four-wheeler from his house. When the bride comes to the village, she has to walk to her new home. This hurts every young man of marriageable age.
The women of Bhatwalia Colony
If someone becomes seriously ill, there is no way they can be taken to the hospital in a vehicle. They have to walk or ride on a bicycle up to the Kobeya main road. That can worsen the condition of the patients. When women in labour have to be taken to the hospital, they also have to endure this hardship. The local doctors do not want to come to the settlement because there is no road. Gaajmati Devi, a resident of the village, said, "Women writhing in labour pain have to be carried up to the road. No ambulance is ready to come here. This is very painful." She said that her family has been living in Bhatwalia Colony for the past three generations. But the thought of building a road here hasn't even crossed the minds of the people in the government. Nathuni Ram rues that, so many years after Independence, the village is still deprived of basic facilities like road and electricity. Sudan Ram, Kanchan Ram, Jagdev Ram, Rajesh Ram, Bhagmati Devi, Lalmuni Devi, Sangeeta Devi and others say that the local people's representatives have an apathetic attitude. At the time of elections, they promise to get a road built but forget about it once they are elected. When asked, Ramchandra Sahni, the MLA from Sugauli, said that he had raised the issue many times in the legislative assembly.
But is that enough? Doesn't he need to do more before the residents of Bhatwalia Colony see changes on the ground?
Forward Press also publishes books on Bahujan issues. Forward Press Books sheds light on the widespread problems as well as the finer aspects of the Bahujan (Dalit, OBC, Adivasi, Nomadic, Pasmanda) community's literature, culture, society and culture. Contact us for a list of FP Books' titles and to order. Mobile: +919968527911, Email: info@forwardmagazine.in)
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Virendra Kumar Gupta वीरेंद्र कुमार गुप्ता
Virendra Kumar Gupta is the East Champaran correspondent of FORWARD Press.
Join the tradition of social justice, Nitish Kumar
I would again request you to do a rethink on your politics and, if possible, re-establish cordial relations with Manjhi. Your ego should not come in the way of this. If you consider yourself superior due to your caste, I have nothing to say
सामाजिक न्याय की परंपरा से जुडि़ए नीतीश कुमार
मैं एक बार फिर आपसे अनुरोध करुंगा कि आप अपनी राजनीति पर पुनर्विचार कीजिए और हो सके तो जीतनराम मांझी से अपने संबंध दुरूस्त कीजिए। इसमें आपको हेठी नहीं होनी चाहिए। आप यदि जाति के हिसाब से अपने को बड़ा मानते हैं तब तो मुझे कुछ नहीं कहना
Bihar rides roughshod over Dalits
The state government demolishes houses built in a Dalit settlement with its assistance after terming them encroachments
बिहार में दलित दमन
बिहार सरकार ने अपनी ही सहायता से निर्मित दलितो के मकानों को अतिक्रमण बताकर जमींदोज किया
Raped to avenge love
Landlords are still above the law in a state ruled by socialists for the past 25 years
प्रेम का बदला बलात्कार
पिछले 25 वर्षों से समाजवादियों द्वारा शासित इस प्रदेश में अब भी ज़मींदार कानून से ऊपर हैं


AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com ("AMGB") was founded in 2007 by Missy Ward, co-founder of Affiliate Summit, FeedFront Magazine and GeekCast.fm. Its goal is two-fold; to raise money to support Breast Cancer research, treatment, awareness and community programs through combined efforts within the Affiliate Marketing Industry and also provide an outlet for people to help themselves by uplifting others in a ways that another piña colada-filled vacation, more "stuff" or a beefier resume couldn't possibly begin to do.
In 2007, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back was formed, (consisting only of Connie Berg of FlamingoWorld.com and Missy Ward) who raised $17,000 in a few short weeks by walking 60-miles in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-day walk in Minnesota.
Eleven years later, 91 affiliate marketers have walked 3,820+ miles in 13 cities and have helped to raise over $600,000.00 for organizations that fund breast cancer research, treatment, awareness and community programs.
Please peruse the site to read about the various fundraising efforts and find out more information about the walkers and sponsors.
If you would like information on walking or sponsoring this year's effort, please contact Missy Ward.
How did the walk go this year?
What a great want to sow back into people lives who are less fortunate.
Thanks to everyone who participates in organizing this event. Is The event only held once a year or in different cities throughout the US?
The team walk happens once a year and the cities in which we walk varies. Avon offers a number of different walks that folks can participate in throughout the year though.
On your web site there was a T shirt from your walk in Chicago 2010 – any chance on some still being available for purchase?
Unfortunately, they were not for sale. They were made just for our team that year.


I hate to be the one to break it to you, but 2016 was a bit of a garbage fire. Continuing conflict and suffering in Syria, gun violence, wildfires, terrorism, Prince and Bowie and Carrie Fisher… I feel like I'm missing one? Oh right, the election.
I'm not going to try to convince you that wasn't all horrible, with more sorrow to come. But I've been doing this nonprofit fundraising thing long enough to know that people STEP UP when things are darkest. Unprecedented challenges drive unimaginable generosity. And nowhere was that more clear than during the December end-of-year (EOY) fundraising season.
Here's our annual data tour, aggregated from 22 organization's EOY results.
Of the 22 organizations who provided data from both 2015 and 2016, all but 4 of them raised more revenue in December 2016 than they did in December 2015. The median organization in our sample saw a 12% increase in total online revenue.
A few organizations saw big, big, BIG increases during EOY 2016, for reasons that we'll dig into later — and as a result, these 22 organizations raised $62 million in December 2016, compared to $39.3 million last year. That's a 58% jump!
Send that email…. Or don't? But definitely still do.
Only one organization that increased their appeal volume this year saw a decrease in email revenue.
All other organizations in our sample saw a correlation between increased email volume and increased email revenue, while decreased volume resulted in uniformly decreased revenue.
The share of online December revenue attributed to email rose from 16% in 2015 to 20% in 2016.
However — the overall trend in response rate to email was essentially flat, with 52% of our sample staying the same and 44% of our sample losing a bit of ground. Only 3 organizations in our sample saw improvements in email response rate this year.
Nonprofits are increasingly diversifying the ways in which they reach new audiences online — including digital advertising.
About two-thirds of the groups we surveyed implemented digital ads as part of their EOY fundraising strategy, including Google Adwords, Retargeting, and Facebook Ads.
Of the 10 groups for which we have revenue breakouts, more than 5% of total December revenue is attributed to view-through of an ad. Doesn't seem like much, when you compare to email — but considering that users may see an ad here or there and end up donating through a different channel, digital ads are a platform to watch (and begin investing in, if you aren't already).
Giving Tuesday was in November this year, which means none of that juicy revenue is included in our December comparison above. That doesn't mean that it isn't important!
Continuing the trend set in the past couple of years (or, well, since the beginning of Giving Tuesday in 2012), promotions and revenue were up significantly. The median group in our sample saw a 62% increase in their Giving Tuesday revenue over 2015.
Part of that increase could be the additional work nonprofits are doing to entice donors into giving on that specific day: of the 22 organizations for which we have year-over-year data, 73% featured a single-day $1-for-$1 match, premium (like a water bottle or a tote bag), or another special offer on Giving Tuesday, compared to just 38% of organizations in 2015.
We are never fundraising in a vacuum, and 2016 went out of its way to rub our noses in that fact.
Elections have consequences. Of the 31 organizations who provided data for this post, one-third of them directly fundraised off the results of the election in November and December and recorded an average 12% improvement in revenue year over year. The organizations that called out direct threats to their organization's mission were also among the groups that saw the highest year over year increase in revenue, averaging a 103% increase.
The conflict in Syria is an ongoing crisis, which saw a dramatic turn for the worse when civilian populations became increasingly targeted. Dramatic shots of children and women in affected areas drove the conflict back into mainstream news, after being largely absent for several years. The 5 groups in our sample that work on international relief and messaged specifically on the crisis in Syria saw a 16% average increase in year over year revenue.
Perhaps as a result of the election and impending new administration, or perhaps as a result of increased monthly donor promotions, upsells, and donor loyalty, groups saw huge increases in the number of monthly sustainers recruited during December.
The 14 groups in our sample with year over year data reported a median 58% bump in the number of sustainers recruited, with a 27% bump in new recurring revenue. Average gift for those new sustainers fell by 12%, indicating that while more people are coming on the file as loyal monthly donors, they are doing so at a lower dollar level.
The groups that messaged specifically on the outcome of the election saw a whopping 201% average increase in monthly donors, on average. The groups who messaged on Syria did about as well as the other groups, averaging a 58% increase in monthly giving.
That's the one question to rule them all. We're in uncharted territory here in a lot of ways — but we're not without hope. The fact that fundraising is up (and up!) for these worthy nonprofit organizations is an indicator that people care — they believe the world can be a better place, they believe in the mission, they believe.
So while our present reality is unprecedented in many ways, the old rules still apply. Keep your fundraising relevant. Keep the email coming. Invest to connect with new audiences, and to convince audiences you already have to donate. The world is listening, and they want to hear what you're saying. Go get 'em!


Librarian Joy Randall has a guilty pleasure--she enjoys reading the "Moravian" vampire romance series. But she never for one moment believed there was a grain of truth to them until she visited the Czech Republic and met a Dark One up close and personal.
Trouble is, she's only met him psychically, when he drew her awareness within himself and let her feel him feeding. She has no idea what he actually looks like, which is unfortunate since he could be one of the many men who are fighting with each other to win her affections--and the prime suspect in a murder case.
The mystery piece was fun. I thought I had nailed down who the killer was, but the ending surprised me a bit.
There were not one but two delectable hunks to drool over.
Size-wise Joy was six feet tall and very sturdy.
I had some trouble suspending my disbelief, not so much over the vampirism, but over some of the heroine's actions. I'm the kind of reader who puts herself in the main character's shoes, and I just could not see myself doing some of the things Joy did.
The first person point of view made it harder to get to know the other characters in the book. I also felt like Joy's best friend Roxy could have had more "screen time".
"A Girl's Guide to Vampires" is a lighthearted romp for folks who enjoy humor in their paranormals, but for those who prefer their vampire books on the serious and scary side, it might not click.
Warning: It goes without saying that there are some elements of the occult in this story, but it also has some spicy moments sexually.
If you liked "A Girl's Guide to Vampires" you might also enjoy "Heaven in Your Eyes", "I Dream of You", "Wishes", and the Halloween reading list.


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Current: NAB Salutes FCC Chairman Martin's DTV Programming Remarks
NAB Salutes FCC Chairman Martin's DTV Programming Remarks
--Broadcasters call on FCC to embrace DTV's full potential--
WASHINGTON, DC – - FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today outlined the benefits of digital TV before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Conference in Washington. During his remarks, Chairman Martin stressed the importance of preventing cable companies from stripping out diverse broadcast programming made available through digital broadcast technology.
"[W]ith the digital spectrum, technology enables broadcasters to put out not just one programming stream, but several," said Martin, according to prepared remarks available on the FCC's Web site. "So, Spanish language broadcasters could broadcast two or three channels of Spanish programming with no additional cost or spectrum."
"Simply put, Spanish language broadcasters could provide more free television programming to the Spanish speaking community," he continued. "The only way we can make this a reality, however, is if the cable companies are required to carry these additional channels. And as is the case today, cable operators should be required to carry this free programming."
Commenting on Chairman Martin's remarks today, NAB Executive Vice President of Media Relations Dennis Wharton released the following statement:
"NAB salutes Chairman Martin's eloquent and steadfast support for providing consumer access to a diverse array of digital broadcast programming. For their own financial reasons, Comcast and other cable gatekeepers have every incentive to deny viewers access to the multiplicity of foreign language and other niche local broadcast programming that could flow from the DTV transition.
"We're hopeful that Chairman Martin's colleagues will join him in embracing DTV's full potential, and not allow a cartel of cable companies to dictate the terms of consumer access to compelling digital broadcast programming."


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Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel
An essay on fathers and feminism
In the wake of #MeToo, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers.
Bold, challenging and nuanced, Daddy Issues examines the place of fathers in contemporary culture and asks how the mixture of love and hatred we feel towards our fathers can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive. If we are to effectively dismantle patriarchy, it is vital that fathers are kept on the hook.
Praise for Daddy Issues
'A timely, necessary work from one of our most vital thinkers. Moving with ease across psychoanalysis, popular culture and literary criticism, weaponising the thought of Woolf, Winnicott and Solanas, Daddy Issues flips the familial script and takes aim at all our Daddies: domestic, cultural, patriarchal, even presidential. The result is a wincingly perceptive, deeply engaged book, one that takes us into the dark heart of a cultural fixation, then shows us, with deep care and empathy, the way back out.'—Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion
'This is a brave and brilliant book by one of the most insightful and articulate writers at work today. Katherine Angel is unafraid to look head on at the forgotten figure in feminism's critique of patriarchy: the father. All of us, daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, are enriched by confronting these libidinal energies, these daddy issues at the centre of all of our lives.' — Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
'A brilliant investigation into the father figure in culture that is also a powerful intervention in the #MeToo debate. Through it all, I think, sounds a call to be present for each other, attentive and open, willing to work for each other's full personhood.' — Adam Foulds, author of The Quickening Maze
'In Daddy Issues, Katherine Angel holds the image of the father in a steady, critical gaze, generating both questions and hesitations, and opening up a vital space in which to challenge how power works in the family.' — David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights on
'In this probing and erudite essay, Katherine Angel asks "Is it ever possible to get rid of the father, or is he forever internalised?" Angel traces the many ways that culture and life reflect the needs of father figures over and above those of "daughters", and how through both imagination and collective attention, we can begin to see and dismantle some of this power. A beautiful and necessary read.' — Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self
'In this impressive and intelligent examination of the father figure, Angel expertly intersects the subject with feminism, mythology, Donald Winnicott, Brett Kavanaugh and more. Her unstinting eye and intellectual vigour make Daddy Issues an engaging interrogation. It feels utterly vital in the context of #MeToo and the political flux the world currently finds itself in.' — Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations: Reflections from Life
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Friends For You offers a free volunteer befriending service for older and vulnerable people living in Gloucestershire. They offer regular social contact at a time when a person might be feeling cut off from their community – through ill health, bereavement or because family and friends are scattered. Research suggests that being isolated can be as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
They introduce you to a local, reliable volunteer who visits you regularly in the comfort of your own home to spend time together, maybe reminisce about days gone by and share a cup of tea.
We all know how important it is to have someone we can rely on to come and see us regularly, especially if we are housebound and this is where the befriending service comes into its own.
However, in order to provide this vital service, they do need volunteers to come forward. Their volunteers are the life blood of their service as without them they couldn't exist.
So if you have an hour a week to spare, why not volunteer for them and be assured that you will spend that time in the company of someone who will really appreciate your time. After all, it only takes an hour a week to transform someone's life. Full training and support is provided together with an opportunity to meet fellow volunteers and to forge new friendships.
Please contact Sue Black, the project co-ordinator, for more information on 07810 630167 or 01452 528491 or email sue.friendsforyou@grcc.org.uk.
Or visit their website by clicking here.
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Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, (abbreviato in Bot. Jahrb. Syst.), è una rivista botanica fondata da Adolf Engler in Germania nel 1881 con cadenza semestrale. Proponeva un annuario botanico per la sistematica, la filogenesi delle piante e la fitogeografia. La rivista fu pubblicata per la prima volta nella città di Lipsia in lingua tedesca e ha continuato la sua pubblicazione dal 1881 a oggi cambiando nome nel 2010 per essere rinominata in inglese con il nuovo titolo di Plant diversity and evolution: Phylogeny, biogeography, structure and function e per cambiare la lingua di pubblicazione dal tedesco all'inglese.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Riviste di botanica tedesche


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