This spring we met Ali and his family, newly arrived as refugees from Iraq, fleeing death threats and searching desperately for lifesaving medical care for little Zaid.
We were honored to work with the International Rescue Committee to help tell their story. Our thanks to the IRC and the Saadawi family, our new neighbors and friends.
In the middle of the night, in the January rain, Ali Saadawi, his wife Dhilal and their two sons raced in an ambulance from SeaTac airport to a team of waiting doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital. Fleeing the threat of death at the hands of Islamist extremists and battling time to save the life of his gravely ill seven-year-old son Zaid, Ali had spent the last two and a half years pleading for a chance to leave Iraq, to exchange home for safety.
Two days later, while the blood of his son cycled out of his body, through a nest of plastic dialysis tubes and blinking electronics, and back to his heart, pure and clean, Ali watched the hospital television as President Trump signed the order that would block all refugees coming from Iraq.
Ali could tell something was off with Zaid; something in his body was not working. At age three, the boy so full of energy and life had slowed, stopped eating and seemed to need sleep all the time. As a career nurse Ali was accustomed to monitoring symptoms, but when the doctors in their hometown of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, diagnosed Zaid with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) Ali knew the journey would be a long one. The disorder, where urine flows backwards from the bladder to the kidneys instead of the other way around, can cause kidney failure. In Zaid's case that failure was complete, literally "end stage".
When your kidneys don't work you have one of two options, dialysis, where you're connected regularly to a machine that pulls blood out of the body, cleans it, and puts it back in, or find new kidneys. With a transplant impossible in Iraq, Zaid's doctor arranged for him to begin dialysis. And Ali began searching for a way out of the country.
It wasn't the first time Ali had considered leaving. The work of his father, Abdulsalam, who had assisted the US Army Corps of Engineers in Nasiriyah, had put a mark on the family. Abdulsalam, had already fled to Seattle, fearing for his safety in Iraq. One day Ali opened a text message from an unknown number, "Leave or we will kill you and your family", it read, a threat from the local Islamist militia. Ali moved the family to a new part of town and prayed.
While the whole family was under very literal threat, Zaid faced his own, more certain crisis. "Dialysis in Iraq," Ali tells me, "means Zaid is waiting for death." I ask him how he knows this and he describes his son sitting in a filthy hospital room. Dirty floors, someone else's blood on the bed, complete lack of anesthetic. A microwave-sized electric food warmer used to "sterilize" instruments. With Zaid crying, they insert the catheter in the wrong part of his body, his neck, instead of into the vessel near the heart. When dialysis began, says Ali, he lost all hope.
A number of times Ali told me there was no respect in Iraq. I wasn't sure what he meant by this, so I asked him. He looked at me with frustration and described seeing another patient, someone else's child, lying on a cold metal hospital table. No blankets. No one watching. The child is trembling, then convulsing, then passes out. The hospital workers glance over and carry on. No hand to hold, no anesthetic to numb the pain. No rush to the emergency ward. No respect.
Here in Seattle, a team from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Refugee Health Promotion Project (RFPP) were preparing for the Saadawi's arrival. When their airplane landed in the middle of the night there was an ambulance waiting to rush Zaid directly to Seattle Children's Hospital. The precautions were justified. Doctor Anisa Ibrahim, who would become the Saadawi's primary care doctor, described the seriousness of Zaid's condition on his arrival.
For most of us, the blood running in our veins and in the veins of our children is completely sterile. If it's not, and if we don't get help, we quickly die. Zaid's blood carried multi-drug resistant bacteria. He had an infection in the lining of his heart. He'd been getting the wrong type of dialysis and had turned a sallow green color. "When people see him," she says, "they forget how sick he is, because he has this bright look on his face. But if that travel ban had happened before he was able to get here I have not a lot of hope that he would have survived overseas." It was six weeks before Zaid was able to leave the hospital.
We've met at a playground on Capitol Hill. Zaid sits on a bench with crossed arms and a very seven year old scowl on his face. Little brother Alhassan had been knocked over as he walked in front of the swing set. Zaid had shouted at the group of boys riding the swing, thrown some dirt, and the boys had called him a stupid baby. Kid stuff. But kid stuff hurts. One of the boys' fathers, down on one knee, tries to talk Zaid out of his funk. "In America", he says, "we have a saying, 'shake it off'… see?" And he shakes Zaid gently by the shoulder. Ali and Dhilal stand behind the bench, watching. The words are too fast, the situation confusing and they're not sure how to respond. They smile politely.
There's a lot to get used to here. A lot to learn. Since arriving a few months ago they've navigated countless new systems, grown their language skills and figured out how to live in a completely new environment. For years all other concerns had been eclipsed by the singular goal of making it somewhere where the family would be safe and where Zaid could have a fighting chance. In the hierarchy of needs, awkward social interactions and overzealous playground parents sit far below the health and safety of your child. They're here now, and Zaid's body grows stronger every day. They're on the list and waiting for a kidney donor. And while they wait, they're making friends, building a community and finding home.


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Q: Aligning a JLabel with a JScrollPane in a BoxLayout I'm trying to align a JLabel and a JScrollPane (containing a JTextArea) to the left of a JPanel. When I put the JTextArea directly in the panel, the alignment is correct. The alignment is only incorrect if the JTextArea is in the scroll pane.
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JDialog dialog = new JDialog();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
        panel.add(new JLabel("My Label"));
        // panel.add(new JTextArea(3, 15));
        panel.add(new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(3, 15)));
        dialog.add(panel);
        dialog.pack();
        dialog.setVisible(true);
    }
}

The first image below is with the scroll pane and the second image is without it. How can I align the scroll pane correctly?

A: Try to use alignmentX:
import java.awt.Component;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JDialog dialog = new JDialog();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

        JLabel label = new JLabel("My Label");
        label.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        panel.add(label);

        JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(3, 15));
        pane.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        panel.add(pane);

        dialog.add(panel);
        dialog.pack();
        dialog.setVisible(true);
    }
}

A: Replace:
panel.add(new JLabel("My Label"));

By:
JPanel labelPan = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT);
labelPan.add(new JLabel("My Label"));
panel.add(labelPan);

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Milan-based designer Paolo Zani's collection brings engaging aesthetics and high function to home and commercial spaces. His expertise has realized products for every room such as ceramic tiles, hi-fi accessories, porcelain tableware, lighting and furniture. His furniture range includes seating designs like the Mantis Office Chair with its fine Italian aesthetics paired with comfort-minded ergonomics.


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Storytellers Project: You're invited. Palm Beach Post seeks everyday people to tell stories on stage
Katherine Kokal
The Palm Beach Post is bringing our community's stories to the stage, and wants to hear from you.
Starting in March, The Post will host a series of storytelling nights at the Lake Park Black Box theater, featuring true, personal stories told by people who live and work in Palm Beach County.
Editors and reporters will put together quarterly shows, coaching a total of 20 people from the community to develop short, spoken stories reflecting on themes that resonate with everyone: growing up, getting along with neighbors, food and family, and celebrating the holidays.
The Post is aiming to create a night of community connection that invites you to get to know your neighbors. The newsroom is seeking story pitches at www.storytellersproject.com/tell/.
Can't think of a story to tell? Come listen to your neighbors share theirs. Tickets for the storytelling nights are on sale now at www.storytellersproject.com/all-events/.
"We are so excited to pass the mic in communities across America, inviting everyday people to tell their own stories in front of their neighbors," said Megan Finnerty, founder and director of the Storytellers Project, part of the USA TODAY Network.
"When people feel empowered to tell their stories and others feel excited about listening, a community changes," she said. "People feel closer to each other. They feel more accepting of those unlike themselves. They feel more connected to their city and the people in it."
Since its launch in 2011 at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, the Storytellers Project has helped more than 6,000 people tell brief, personal stories on stages in front of more than 60,000 people. In the beginning of the pandemic the shows were aired online, reaching millions since March 2020.
In 2022, The Palm Beach Post will join the project and 16 other newsrooms across the country to put on our first show, joining communities including Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware and Worcester, Massachusetts, that are new to the project.
The 2022 Storytellers Project schedule
March 9: Growing Up – Feel energized, inspired, and maybe a bit nostalgic as tellers share stories about their younger years.
June 8: Neighbors – Feel heartened, uplifted, and more connected to the world and people around you as we share stories from the neighborhood.
Sept. 14: Food and Family – Feel full of warmth, hopeful and a wee bit sentimental as we share stories about food and our family traditions.
Nov. 16: Holidays – Feel comforted and ready for loved ones, presents and the lights of the season as we share stories about the holidays.
Become a storyteller
The Post is looking for storytellers from all backgrounds who are willing to share their hearts, and jokes, with their neighbors. Tellers work with storytelling coaches to shape their true, first-person story around the theme of the night. Each story will run between seven and 10 minutes, and tellers receive between three and five hours of training to develop their stories.
Tellers begin working with the project coaches about two months before the event, but you can apply now at www.storytellersproject.com/tell/ as Palm Beach Post coaches will select tellers reflecting the diverse experiences of our community in the coming weeks.
All shows will take place at the Black Box, at Park Avenue and Seventh Street in downtown Lake Park. Formerly known as The Kelsey Theater, it has hosted events as diverse as concerts, comedy shows and dance performances through the years. It seats 275 people and is accessible to people in wheelchairs.
Tickets are now on sale for all 2022 shows. You may purchase season tickets or individual shows. To reserve yours today, visit www.storytellersproject.com/all-events/.
kkokal@pbpost.com
@katikokal

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JoJo is embarking on a new chapter in her career with the announcement of her own imprint Clover Music, which she is launching in partnership with Interscope Records.
The pop songstress took to social media to share the exciting news. The joint venture reunites her with Aaron Bay-Schuck, the A&R who helped sign her to Atlantic Records.
JoJo was previously signed to Blackground Records. Her multi-year battle with the label was highly publicized and she was eventually released from her contract in 2013. She went on to sign with Atlantic and release her first album in 10 years, Mad Love., last October. It debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, selling 25,000 in its first week.


One of the biggest challenges my students face is getting — and staying — organized. Me too. So if you want to write faster and better, here are three apps which will help with that.
All three are Web apps, so it doesn't matter what computer system you're using. You can even use them on your phone and tablet.
Trello has long been one of my favorite apps. I love it because it's visual, and because the app makes it simple to collaborate with others.
The app's free to use, and it works something like a bulletin board. I use it for plotting novels, planning blog editorial calendars, and simple reminders. You can create as many boards as you like, and as many lists. The search function works well, so you don't need to hunt for the card you want.
Do try it, as we've said, it's free, and it truly makes it simple to organize your writing projects.
I've been using Evernote since 2009. I don't know how I'd survive without it. Everything that's important to me lives in Evernote, because Evernote lives in the cloud. That's saved me when a hard drive failed; I just kept on writing.
Evernote's wonderful for collaboration because you can set up shared notebooks. I use shared notebooks for client projects. I add our writing agreement, and Terms of Service document to a client notebook as soon as I set it up. This means that if there are queries, the client can refer to our agreement. I add documents to the notebook, so the client can review them without emailing attachments to and fro. Once a project is done, I archive the notebook.
I archive, because although you can have 100,000 notes in Evernote, you're limited to 250 notebooks in a personal account. I may switch to a business account soon, because you can have 500,000 notes, and 10,000 notebooks in Evernote Business.
A couple of writers have told me that Evernote has a learning curve. My response is always: use what you need, you don't need to use every single feature. Just dump stuff in there. As you become familiar with the app, it will become easy and natural to use. And it will get you organized, and will keep you organized. You'll write faster, and because you can concentrate on your writing, you'll write better.
As stated, I haven't used 750 Words. Several of my students swear by it however. It will help you to develop a writing habit.
All three tools are free. And they're great at getting you organized, so you can focus on your writing. Give them a try.
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Most Important Event on the Traditional Harp Calendar
www.harpfestival.co.uk
Edinburgh International Harp Festival 2021: Alex Monaghan watched as hundreds of harpists went online for a global gathering of music on this ancient instrument.
There have always been harpists in Scotland, and connections with other harp traditions, for as long as Scotland has existed really, but this festival started at a pretty lean period for Scottish harping and has watched the scene flourish and flower over the past four decades. Around 1980 it was early days for names like Alison Kinnaird, Patsy Seddon, Billy Jackson and Mary MacMaster, the harpists I encountered at that time, and while there were other harpists around they were using the harp more for accompaniment than as a solo instrument in its own right. The picture is very different nowadays: generation after generation of harpists have improved technique and repertoire, and there are now so many Scottish harpists that his festival could have concentrated on them alone. Instead it has become ever more international - from the obvious choices of Ireland, Wales and Brittany, to the more distant relations in Galicia and North America, and the parallel evolutions in places like Paraguay and Peru - and is now arguably the most important event on the traditional harp calendar.
The 40th Edinburgh International Harp Festival featured several generations of Scottish players as well as Welsh, Irish, American and European harpists, and players from other continents too. Everything was online, of course: four big evening concerts, a number of smaller concerts, plus workshops and tutorials and other events. This was the second online festival - last year was a bit of a scramble, but this year was very organised and hugely impressive. I didn't drop into the teaching sessions - I don't have a harp to bring to the party - but I enjoyed every concert, renewing old acquaintances and discovering exciting new players.
Ingrid Henderson @ FROG
www.iainmacfarlaneingridhenderson.com
Ailie Robertson, one of Scotland's best known harpists, opened this concert with a selection of Irish and Scottish classics both ancient and modern, as well as some of her own music and one or two pieces from Quebec where she spent a year or two studying and teaching. Ailie's style is quite jazzy, plenty of swing and great bass lines: she is a mainstay of the international folk group The Outside Track, whom you could think of as a sort of Atomic Piseag. In a set of mainly dance music - jigs, waltzes, polkas - she included the lovely slow air Chrissie's Tune by West Highland fiddler/violinist Donald Grant, and rounded off with a very flash version of the hornpipe President Garfield's. Continuing the West Highland connection, Ailie was followed by Ingrid Henderson and her fiddler husband Iain MacFarlane with some driving dance music from Scotland, Sweden, Cape Breton and elsewhere. It was interesting to hear the harp both as an accompaniment and an equal melodic partner to the fiddle: difficult to imagine the fiddle being so flexible in most hands, but Iain does also play bagpipes and piano accordion, so be careful what you wish for!
Although this was a virtual and pre-recorded concert, EIFH put a lengthy interval in the programme, for this and the other evening concerts, which had the advantages of creating a natural break and also providing a slot for information about merchandise and future performances. After the interval Maggie MacInnes, daughter of the great Barra singer Flora MacNeil, combined Gaelic song with harp accompaniment, and with some strong words about those who meddled with the Gaelic tradition in the past, particularly with reference to Marjorie Kennedy Fraser's changes to the song known as The Eriskay Love Lilt from the island of my ancestors. Fortunately the original version - or as close as we can get - is now well known and was beautifully performed by Maggie here. To close the opening concert of the festival, the pioneering Edinburgh harp duo Sìleas revisited many of their classic arrangements of Scottish music for Patsy Seddon's gut-strung clarsach and Mary MacMaster's wire-strung instrument. For some of us this was a trip down memory lane, back to the 1980s: for others it was probably a new experience, and as fresh today as almost forty years ago. The camera work on this performance was a little jerky and limited, perhaps because this was the first recording done with a live audience in Greyfriars Kirk: the rest of the festival had smooth and satisfying video, with no visual distractions.
Saturday's lunchtime concert presented the first handful of new generation harpists - and the first male harper on this year's programme. From its historical character as a male-dominated pursuit, harping has become almost all women, certainly in Scotland and in several other countries. I can't name a young male harpist - or I couldn't until I heard Dubliner Luke Webb, sharing this concert with five female harpists from around Scotland. This was the first of three showcases for young talent, which demonstrated great technical and composing skills as well as an encouraging level of inclusivity and some very young names to watch. The second concert featured wire-strung harp as well as gut-strung instruments, with a mix of old and new music from Scotland, North America and the Isle of Man: I particularly enjoyed the technical aspects of Brèagha Charlton's performance on close-up video, and the liveliness of Arabella Ayen's playing. Monday's youngsters were Scottish based again, with some lovely performances including a great medley of dance tunes from Sorcha Thompson and a fitting finale from 2020 Up and Coming Artist award winner Becky Hill.
The big piece in Saturday's evening concert was The Mask by Yiota Myserli from Greece, which won her the Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award. It's a flowing, changing river of notes, running through a range of moods, impressively played on a lovely lever harp. Before Yiota, Corrina Hewat & David Milligan presented a varied programme of modern music for harp and piano - which is just a big fancy harp when all's said and done! Their combination of music and song, jazz and tradition, led up to a grand rendition of American fiddler Liz Knowles' spiky 7/8 piece Rumble Thy Bellyful, a delight for the senses.
While the great majority of harps on show at this festival are lever harps - configurable chromatic instruments - there were also a number of different styles of harp, and even related instruments such as the Chinese guzheng which featured in this concert, a horizontal instrument like an enormous zither played by five female musicians for a piece of music depicting a dramatic storm. Another Chinese piece portrayed the Silk Road through a whole ensemble of traditional and modern Chinese instruments - moon guitar, flute, zither, and other Asian instruments, together with keyboards and drum kit for a very varied soundscape.
After an interval punctuated by a new tune from Isobel Mieras, Keep On Smiling, Irish American harpist Maeve Gilchrist performed extracts from her recent album The Harpweaver in her inimitable flamboyant style. James Hill's Locomotive received a jazzy make-over amid some of Maeve's own sparkling compositions. Gorgeous music with a story behind it, Maeve's new pieces are available in her recordings and music books. To finish an epic concert, The Tarab Trio combined German harpist Tom Daun's clarsach with the three-string lute and many-stringed santur dulcimer of two Kurdish musicians: their sound is ancient, eastern, and yet still shares elements with the oldest pieces in the Celtic harp repertoire: the modal harmonies and dissonances, and the close connection of phrasing and rhythm between singers, dancers and musicians. Based in Solingen but with a store of tunes and songs from Greece to Afghanistan, this band provided a fine finale for the second evening concert.
Dråm @ FROG
www.draam.com
In an afternoon concert on Sunday, Anne Denholm and Eira Lynn Jones mixed lever harp and pedal harp for contemporary solos and a final duet. This was much more how many people are used to seeing the harp presented, in a parlour or grand atrium setting, with a repertoire that emphasises the bell-like qualities of the instrument rather than the more modern staccato or even percussive possibilities. Anne and Eira played some very beautiful and approachable pieces by Welsh composers, and a couple of more challenging works.
Sunday evening mixed harp and nyckelharpa from Swedish duo Dråm with a range of less traditional harp music. Erik Ask-Upmark used a harp technique I hadn't seen before, a sort of pinch between finger and thumb of the left hand. Anna Rynefors alternated nyckelharpa and Swedish bagpipes, a relatively quiet instrument which fitted well with the clarsach, and also played plucked nyckelharpa, another first for me. Esther Swift's short set included a range of music on pedal harp from 9th century brain-teasers to Kate Bush songs, all with her energetic vocals and fingerwork. After a virtual interval, Park Stickney coaxed cool jazz and world music sounds from his green and gold pedal harp - a mix of his home state's Encanto Park with his adopted Geneva's Park de la Grange perhaps. Instructive, entertaining and inscrutable, often simultaneously, Park's performance was uniquely inspirational. All that was missing was a dance piece, but maybe next time we can look forward to a sort of Stickney ballroom. As if this wasn't enough, the evening was rounded off by Paraguayan pair Hermanos Corbalán with rather different harps and techniques for their Latin-tinged music: cascades of notes, complex tunings, sinuous rhythms and subtle melodies. There were resonances with Spanish and even Celtic traditions, but just as much with the Tex-Mex music which is almost as geographically distant, so no doubt this tradition has a fascinating history behind its lively toe-tapping music. Their final piece was stunning, a real highlight of the festival.
Rachel Hair @ FROG
www.rachelhair.com
The closing concert of this year's event embraced music from Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and of course Italy. Adriano Sangineto is a harpist I had actually heard before, in a live stream with Ailie Robertson: like everywhere else, Italy seems to have fallen in love with Celtic harp music, and Adriano is leading the scene with his Arpa Creativa performances. Sangineto played four of his own pieces, all happy and uplifting: contemporary music with a good beat, and a heart of swing or ragtime or perhaps traditional dance. Technically superb, and with great sound quality as all the concert sets had, this performance was highly entertaining and great fun, a different voice for the ancient but oh so flexible harp.
Laoise Kelly, recorded on Achill Island just off the Atlantic coast of Ireland, kicked off with a couple of tunes from the Connellan brothers, 17th-century harpists who travelled between Ireland and Scotland. There was a very full sound from her harp which suited the slower pieces, but when she switched up to dance tempo for a couple of polkas the ringing strings weren't an issue at all: Laoise's great technique is obviously adapted to damping as needed. She wrapped up with three Scottish tunes, some Skinner virtuoso pieces played flawlessly on harp. Welsh harp icon Llio Rhydderch played a set of seven traditional and new pieces on Welsh triple harp with its characteristic rippling sound. From the bright air Sir Fôn Bach through the descriptive Beuno a'r Gylfinir to the final joyous jig Difyrrwch Ynysmaengwyn, we were treated to the full gamut of Welsh harp music played by a true master of the instrument. The finale by duo Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy came back to Scotland - with a touch of Irish and Manx music, and a couple of Rachel's own compositions. Their combination of harp and guitar is tried and tested, Jappy's rhythmic chords leaving Hair free to harmonise with both hands on the beautiful Looking at a Rainbow through a Dirty Window, and to concentrate on the tricky melody of The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside. Solo harp for two slow airs showed the lovely deep notes of the instrument, enhanced by the live setting in Greyfriars Kirk. Ron and Rachel ended in funky style with a set of salty jigs: Starry-Eyed Lads, Alan Kelly's The Alamo, and The Rolling Wave.
Four days of the finest harp music, all put together by committee members and volunteers: a very impressive achievement, and so smoothly presented. The concerts were introduced by familiar faces from the harp world, doing themselves and the festival great credit. Each evening concert was preceded by a half-hour chat between two harpists - serious, sociable, and silly by turns! Among many tasteful and innovative touches, the combination of small-audience recordings and home videos was inspired: so varied, and so adaptable. I hope the Edinburgh International Harp Festival will find a way to keep the advantages of online performances - for both audience and artists - as they plan for in-person concerts in April 2022!
Photo Credits: (1) Sileas, (2) Edinburgh International Harp Festival, (3) Ingrid Henderson Iain MacFarlane, (4) Hermanos Corbalán, (5) Dråm, (6) Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy (unknown/website).


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Tracking Beluga Whales Reveals Behavior Insights
Beluga whales swim among West Greenland sea ice. (Credit: Kristin Laidre / University of Washington)
Relative to other marine mammals like dolphins, little is known about elusive beluga whales. Part of this is probably because they live in some of the world's most frigid and remote oceans.
But researchers at the University of Washington have recently uncovered more insights into the behaviors of these rarely seen creatures. Their work relied on analysis of a long-term beluga data set and actually tagging the whales with tracking devices equipped with satellite telemetry that linked up and beamed their locations to researchers upon surfacing.
The tags are designed to turn on when the whale comes up to breathe and then transmit locations and dive depths to a satellite that relays data back to researchers electronically. Tag technology has improved over time, with researchers noting that they had one tag that stuck on a whale and kept transmitting data for more than 18 months.
The work to tag the whales began in 1993 when researchers collaborated with indigenous communities in Northwest Alaska and aboriginal tribes in Canada to tag beluga whales. Since the whales often swim close to shore during early summer in these regions, it's possible to capture a whale and attach a satellite transmitter to the dorsal ridge along its back.
Using the tags helped immensely, scientists say, because they provided high-resolution information for the animals even though they spend most of their time underwater and offshore in some of the most remote areas of the Arctic.
A typical beluga whale satellite-linked tag configuration. (Credit: Leslie Pierce / North Slope Borough)
The scientists focused on two distinct populations of beluga whales that spend winters in the Bering Sea then move north as sea ice melts and open water allows them to pass into the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. In those regions, they depend on populations of Arctic cod to survive, frequently diving to depths of 200 to 300 meters to find food.
It was for that reason that researchers also kept tabs on distributions of Arctic cod throughout the study. They compared the distributions to the locations and depths where the whales dived. This revealed that beluga whales tend to dive to depths where the cod congregate, and continued to depend on the fish as a major source of food.
Other than the relationship between whale dives and the locations of Arctic cod, researchers noticed that the diving behaviors of belugas are pretty hard to pinpoint. Both beluga populations frequently dived to the bottom of the sea to feed on bottom-dwelling organisms in the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea, but then dived in more mid-depth ranges along areas that sloped from shallow to deep. Scientists think the whales might have been looking for opportunities to eat based on where prey was concentrated by oceanographic features.
As the Arctic continues to change due to rising temperatures, melting sea ice and human interest in developing oil and shipping routes, researchers argue that it will become more important to understand the behaviors of beluga whales. And they think that the results of their study will give future scientists a nice baseline from which to build on that understanding.
Results of the work may help beluga whale management efforts, scientists say, which would protect a valuable resource for native Arctic communities. They also shed light on the animals' yearly migrations that take place in a fast-changing area over thousands of miles.
Other institutions assisting in the work include the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Alaska's North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management and Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Freshwater Institute. Full results are published online in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Top image: Beluga whales swim among West Greenland sea ice. (Credit: Kristin Laidre / University of Washington)
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Westchester ARC is presenting a musical comedy performed by The Singing Doctors, Greg LaGana, MD and Barry Levy, MD. The performance will be held Sunday, November 1st. at 1:00 p.m.. Brunch at 11:30 a.m. at the Westchester ARC, Gleeson-Israel Gateway Center, 265 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532. Brunch & show $35, Show only $15. See the ARC website for more details and information about our friends at ARC.
Our own Tina Strobos, MD was featured on October 17 in the New York Times Rye Report. The article highlights her story as a teen in Amsterdam helping Jews escape the Gestapo.
You are currently browsing the Westchester Psychiatry: A District Branch of the APA blog archives for October, 2009.


data entry is not a job for everyone. you often hear about how factory workers have the most tedious job on earth because they're doing the same 5 or 7 actions all day long for 10 hours a day. imagine doing that without anyone around you in a small cube with no windows. this is the hell that is data entry. if you can't keep your brain entertained during the day, you'll become more and more drained. this isn't a terrible problem for me because my head is constantly spinning around a thousand different things. i spend days analyzing everything from myself to politics to the War on "Terra" to ideas for films to interpersonal relationships to whatever else comes to mind. i realize something new about myself everyday, or at the very least make it a goal to do so. things occur to me that i should've realized but didn't. i figure out things that i need to start doing in the name of self-improvement (yes, self-improvement is masturbation, self-improvement leads nowhere and self-destruction is the only true means of growth, blah blah blah). wishes, desires, needs, longings make themselves known to me that had previously been indecipherable. the same happens with lengthy conversation with friends, but sometimes you just don't have the disposable bodies to converse with and you're forced to talk to yourself.
these are not the sorts of things sane people should be doing. only the abnormal, the mentally hyperactive, or the delusional should do something as tedious as data entry.


Our installers take the same care to properly take down your decorations as they do to put them up. At the end of the season (usually mid-January through February), our installers return to your home to take down your lights. The lights are removed, properly labelled, packed in containers, and stored in our insured facility until the next season. Your lights will be installed with the same care from year to year.
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Former United States striker Charlie Davies announced his retirement on Friday at age 31.
Davies was out of contract after spending the past two years with the Philadelphia Union, though he only made three appearances off the bench in 2017.
"After careful thought and with a very heavy heart, I've decided to retire from playing professional soccer," Davies said. "Ever since I was six years old, I dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player and it has been so much more than I ever could have imagined."
Davies was a crucial part of the U.S. attack in the lead-up to the 2010 World Cup, but his promising career was derailed by injuries suffered in a 2009 car accident that killed another passenger.
Davies broke two bones in his right leg and his elbow, nose, forehead and eye socket, while also suffering a ruptured bladder and bleeding on his brain.
He was able to get back on the pitch in 2011 on loan with D.C. United and even returned to his French club Sochaux, but he never played for the national team again.
He moved to Randers in Denmark the next year before signing full-time in MLS with the New England Revolution, only to be dealt another setback when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2016.
"I've loved every second of my time on the field even the desperate lows of injury and cancer that have made the highs all that much sweeter," Davies said.
"I've loved the friendships, the competition and I've loved all the amazing people on both sides of the fence."


Downtown Manhattan floating on fog, 14 April 2019.
Lafayette Grand Cafe is one of my favorite brunch spots. They have a large outdoor seating area when the weather is nice - and when it's not, the interior is cozy and inviting. I love that they're open for breakfast/brunch 7 days/wk! The drink I'm enjoying is called the Jardin Verte - green apple, kale, ginger and cucumber. Fun fact? They'll add vodka if you're feeling wild 🤫 I also ordered the Salmon Gravalax Benedict on everything brioche, but is not pictured because I dug in without snapping a photo. Oops! TRY IT, though, because it is GOOD. What are your favorite brunch spots?


MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 were designed to address business needs and issues that commonly arise in organizations. This section pulls together the information about SharePoint features described in other chapters of this book to summarize some common business issues and how features of SharePoint can be used to address them. Scenarios that represent these issues are described along with the specific SharePoint technologies that can be used to address that particular issue.
In many organizations users duplicate effort by creating documents or by gathering information when someone else in the organization has already done so. This happens because either the users didn't know the information existed or they couldn't find it, and results in an inefficient use of time.
SQL full-text indexing of Windows SharePoint Services sites enables indexing and searching site content so that users can quickly find the documents or information they need.
Users need information, and often the only way they can get it is to perform multiple different types of searches on multiple content sources and then manually consolidate the results. This results in the possibility of content not being searched (either because it is overlooked or just takes too much time) as well as an inefficient use of time.
Adding frequently used sources of information as content sources in a SharePoint 2007 environment provides a means for users to perform one search request and have the results from many different content sources displayed together. For example, a single SharePoint search request could span other SharePoint sites, websites external to the organization, file shares, and Microsoft Exchange Public Folders. This enables users to easily search across many sources to find the information they need.
Only the full MOSS 2007 version of the product supports searching and indexing content from external sources. WSS 3.0 supports only indexing local content in WSS sites.
A team of people need to collaborate on a project and produce a set of documents to be sent to a client. User A works on the first document and saves it as "Doc1." User A emails User B to let User B know the document is available for review. User B makes changes and additions and saves the document as "Doc1 R1." User B creates an email with a list of ideas about additional changes that could be made and emails it to User A and User C. User C replies to User A and User B regarding User B's email about proposed changes, makes her own changes, saves it as "Doc1 R2," and emails User A and B to let them know changes have been made. User A also replies about the proposed changes, makes "final" changes to the document, saves it as "Doc1 Final," and emails the document to the client.
Two days later, the client emails back with the list of changes the client wants to see in the document. User A edits the document again and saves it as "Doc1 Final R1." The process continues until there are suddenly 10 versions of the document and 16 emails floating around about what should be in the document. At this point, the team isn't sure what changes have been made, the folder where the document is stored is cluttered with various versions of the document (and taking up a lot of space), and nobody knows which version(s) were sent to the client.
Rather than having multiple versions of multiple documents floating around with different names, a team site for the project with a shared document library could be used. Each client document would be stored in the library, and by using versions and entering version comments, shown in Figure 3.7, the team would know who made changes, be provided with a brief overview of what or why changes were made, and know which one was sent to the client. By using document discussions in place of emails to have an online discussion of the document, all comments are stored in one place, with the document right there for easy access as opposed to sifting through multiple emails.
Figure 3.7 Using versioning and version comments in a SharePoint document library.
A user emails an attachment to a group, revises the attachment, and then emails it to the group again, and so on. This results in excess email traffic, excess storage, and the potential that recipients won't see the current version of the attachment if it is modified after the email is sent.
Document workspaces and libraries can be used for storing documents in a centralized document library, accessible by all team members. Alerts set up by team members notify them when the document changes. Team members know where the most current version of the document is located and are notified automatically when the document changes.
In a traditional file system environment, a user creates a document. For future reference, should the document be stored in a folder based on the subject of the document, in a folder based on document type, in a folder based on the client the document was created for, or in all three places? Decisions of this type need to be made all the time, weighing the consequences of storing the document in one place versus another versus storing multiple copies of the document.
When using SharePoint, using document metadata and topics prevents the document creator from having to worry about where the document is stored. Metadata, or specific fields of information that can be stored with the document, can be used for information such as subject, client, and document type. Because these fields are searchable, a document can be easily found regardless of what folder it is in. Some organizations go as far as storing all documents in one big document library and then use metadata (shown in Figure 3.8), topic assignments, and search to classify and find information.
Figure 3.8 Adding metadata columns to SharePoint document libraries.
An organization might use a business application such as SAP or Microsoft Great Plains. Some individuals in the organization will need to access information stored in these applications, but it would be costly to install and maintain the application on each desktop and to train all the users.
ASP.NET web parts can be developed and used to access and display information from other applications and data sources. Single sign-on can also be enabled to provide seamless integration with the application. This provides the user with an easy, usable method for accessing information, and the IT department can maintain the code centrally and not have to worry about desktop deployment and specific training for the line-of-business applications. SharePoint 2007 also supports web parts written for SharePoint 2003, which opens it to the capability to view content from multiple third-party software and web part vendors.
An organization needs to collaborate with another organization—for example, a marketing company that is doing research and developing collateral for the organization, or a client that the organization is working with on a specific project. The users from both organizations email documents and other information back and forth. Typically, these emails are sent to all people involved with the project so as to not leave anyone out. This can result in excess email traffic and emails being sent to users that they might not need (or want) to see.
The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 team site template fits the needs of groups of people working collaboratively. The site can be set up for extranet access, enabling outside parties to participate as team members. Using a team site over a traditional email-based method of communication provides all kinds of benefits, including giving people the ability to review only what they want to review, set up alerts to be notified when specific information changes, set up a process for approving final documents, participate in online real-time discussions, and look at prior document versions.


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Bronx DA drops rape charges against Rikers Island medic, blaming criminal justice reform
Lift on ban of "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets in Pennsylvania schools
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Bracelets Brianna Hawk, 15, and Kayla Martinez, 14, were wearing when they were suspended. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Monday that the "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets cannot be banned. (Matt Rourke/AP)
PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets, rejecting the district's claim that the slogan — designed to promote breast cancer awareness among young people — is lewd.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn't prove the bracelets were disruptive.
"Because the bracelets here are not plainly lewd and because they comment on a social issue, they may not be categorically banned," Judge D. Brooks Smith wrote in the 9-5 decision.
The ruling is a victory for two Easton Area School District girls who challenged the school rule in 2010 with help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Easton is one of several school districts around the country to ban the bracelets, which are distributed by the nonprofit Keep A Breast Foundation of Carlsbad, Calif.
ACLU lawyer Mary Catherine Roper said the ruling supports the rights of students to discuss important topics.
"It explicitly says school children talk about important things, and when they (do) ... that's the kind of speech we want to protect and promote," Roper said.
The teens, Brianna Hawk and Kayla Martinez, testified that they merely hoped to promote awareness of the disease at their middle school.
They filed suit when they were suspended for defying the ban on their school's Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Brianna Hawk, 15 (l.), and Kayla Martinez, 14, were suspended from their Pennsylvania schools after they sported the banned "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets during Breast Cancer Awareness Day. (Matt Rourke/AP)
In their dissent Monday, the five judges said the majority had wrongly reasoned that schools cannot limit student speech involving social commentary, even if it "could reasonably be deemed lewd, vulgar, plainly offensive, or constituting sexual innuendo."
The school district kept the litigation alive, appealing when a lower court judge ruled for the girls. District solicitor John Freund complained that Smith's ruling leaves schools with little guidance about where they can draw the line.
"The majority, in the 74-page opinion, leaves school districts in the lurch as to which standards to apply when increasingly aggressive double-entendres come into school in the guise of some social or political cause," he said.
Easton officials have 90 days to decide whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Freund did not expect a quick decision, and questioned whether any one district has the duty "to make constitutional law for everyone else" in an era of budget constraints.
He believes the bracelets have a sexual undertone that invites disruption in the classroom.
"Middle school is a witch's brew of hormones and curiosity," Freund argued in previous court sessions, when he called the bracelets "cause-based marketing energized by sexual double-entendres."
The full appeals court elected to hear the school district's appeal in February rather than leave it to a three-judge panel. During those arguments, Judge Dolores Sloviter said she did not see the slogan as sexual, and told the packed courtroom that she had once lost a colleague on the court to breast cancer.


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from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

from aqt import mw
from aqt.utils import tooltip
from util import jcfg, jcfgUpdate, mkBtn

class PreferencesDialog(QDialog):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(PreferencesDialog, self).__init__(parent)
        self.rowGui = []
        self.resize(950, 600)

        self.setWindowTitle('Furikill Preferences')
        self.vbox = vbox = QVBoxLayout(self)

        self.createNoteFilterTab()
        self.createButtons()

        self.setLayout(self.vbox)

    def createNoteFilterTab(self):
        vbox = self.vbox; vbox.setContentsMargins(0, 20, 0, 0)

        self.tableModel = QStandardItemModel(0, 5)
        self.tableView = QTableView()
        self.tableView.setModel(self.tableModel)
        self.tableView.horizontalHeader().setResizeMode(QHeaderView.Stretch)
        self.tableView.setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView.SelectRows)
        self.tableView.setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView.SingleSelection)
        self.tableModel.setHeaderData(0, Qt.Horizontal, "Note type")
        self.tableModel.setHeaderData(1, Qt.Horizontal, "Tags")
        self.tableModel.setHeaderData(2, Qt.Horizontal, "Source field")
        self.tableModel.setHeaderData(3, Qt.Horizontal, "Destination field")
        self.tableModel.setHeaderData(4, Qt.Horizontal, "\"Has Kanji\" field (optional)")

        rowData = jcfg('Filter')
        self.tableModel.setRowCount(len(rowData))
        self.rowGui = []
        for i, row in enumerate(rowData):
            self.setTableRow(i, row)

        label = QLabel("Any card that has the given \"Note type\" and all of the given \"Tags\" will have its \"Source field\" furikilled with the result being written to \"Destination field\". \"Tags\" is a comma-separated list. If \"Tags\" is empty, there are no tag restrictions. The \"Has Kanji\" field is optional. You can set multiple different files for a note type, but please make sure they do not overlap.")
        label.setWordWrap(True)
        vbox.addWidget(label)
        vbox.addSpacing(20)
        vbox.addWidget(self.tableView)

        hbox = QHBoxLayout(); vbox.addLayout(hbox)

        self.clone = mkBtn("Clone", self.onClone, self, hbox)
        self.delete = mkBtn("Delete", self.onDelete, self, hbox)
        self.up = mkBtn("Up", self.onUp, self, hbox)
        self.down = mkBtn("Down", self.onDown, self, hbox)

    def createButtons(self):
        hbox = QHBoxLayout(); self.vbox.addLayout(hbox)
        buttonCancel = QPushButton("&Cancel"); hbox.addWidget(buttonCancel, 1, Qt.AlignRight)
        buttonCancel.setMaximumWidth(150)
        self.connect( buttonCancel, SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.onCancel )

        buttonOkay = QPushButton("&Apply"); hbox.addWidget(buttonOkay, 0)
        buttonOkay.setMaximumWidth(150)
        self.connect( buttonOkay, SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.onOkay )

    # see util.jcfg_default()['Filter'] for type of data
    def setTableRow(self, rowIndex, data):
        assert rowIndex >= 0, "Negative row numbers? Really?"
        assert len(self.rowGui) >= rowIndex, "Row can't be appended because it would leave an empty row"

        rowGui = {}

        modelComboBox = QComboBox()
        active = 0
        modelComboBox.addItem("All note types")
        for i, model in enumerate(mw.col.models.allNames()):
            if model == data['Type']: active = i + 1
            modelComboBox.addItem(model)
        modelComboBox.setCurrentIndex(active)

        rowGui['modelComboBox'] = modelComboBox
        rowGui['tagsEntry'] = QLineEdit(', '.join(data['Tags']))
        rowGui['srcField'] = QLineEdit(data['SourceField'])
        rowGui['dstField'] = QLineEdit(data['DestField'])
        rowGui['hasKanjiField'] = QLineEdit(data['HasKanjiField'])
        self.tableView.setIndexWidget(self.tableModel.index(rowIndex, 0), rowGui['modelComboBox'])
        self.tableView.setIndexWidget(self.tableModel.index(rowIndex, 1), rowGui['tagsEntry'])
        self.tableView.setIndexWidget(self.tableModel.index(rowIndex, 2), rowGui['srcField'])
        self.tableView.setIndexWidget(self.tableModel.index(rowIndex, 3), rowGui['dstField'])
        self.tableView.setIndexWidget(self.tableModel.index(rowIndex, 4), rowGui['hasKanjiField'])

        if len(self.rowGui) == rowIndex:
            self.rowGui.append(rowGui)
        else:
            self.rowGui[rowIndex] = rowGui

    def rowIndexToFilter(self, rowIdx):
        return self.rowGuiToFilter(self.rowGui[rowIdx])

    def rowGuiToFilter(self, rowGui):
        filter = {}

        if rowGui['modelComboBox'].currentIndex() == 0: filter['Type'] = None # no filter "All note types"
        else: filter['Type'] = rowGui['modelComboBox'].currentText()

        filter['Tags'] = rowGui['tagsEntry'].text().replace(',', ' ').split()
        filter['SourceField'] = rowGui['srcField'].text()
        filter['DestField'] = rowGui['dstField'].text()

        if rowGui['hasKanjiField'] == '': filter['hasKanjiField'] = None
        else: filter['HasKanjiField'] = rowGui['hasKanjiField'].text()

        return filter

    def readConfigFromGui(self):
        cfg = {}

        cfg['Filter'] = []
        for i, rowGui in enumerate(self.rowGui):
            cfg['Filter'].append(self.rowGuiToFilter(rowGui))

        return cfg

    def onCancel(self):
        self.close()

    def onOkay(self):
        jcfgUpdate(self.readConfigFromGui())
        self.close()

    def getCurrentRow(self):
        indexes = self.tableView.selectedIndexes()
        if len(indexes) == 0: return 0
        return indexes[0].row()

    def appendRowData(self, data):
        self.tableModel.setRowCount(len(self.rowGui) + 1)
        self.setTableRow(len(self.rowGui), data)

    def onClone(self):
        row = self.getCurrentRow()
        data = self.rowIndexToFilter(row)
        self.appendRowData(data)

    def onDelete(self):
        # do not allow to delet last row
        if len(self.rowGui) == 1:
            return
        rowToDelete = self.getCurrentRow()
        self.tableModel.removeRow(rowToDelete)
        self.rowGui.pop(rowToDelete)

    def moveRowUp(self, row):
        if not (row >= 0 and row < len(self.rowGui)): return # can't move first row up
        data1 = self.rowIndexToFilter(row - 1)
        data2 = self.rowIndexToFilter(row - 0)
        self.setTableRow(row - 1, data2)
        self.setTableRow(row - 0, data1)

    def onUp(self):
        row = self.getCurrentRow()
        self.moveRowUp(row)
        self.tableView.selectRow(row - 1)

    def onDown(self):
        # moving a row down means moving the next row up
        row = self.getCurrentRow()
        self.moveRowUp(row + 1)
        self.tableView.selectRow(row + 1)

def main():
    mw.mm = PreferencesDialog(mw)
    mw.mm.show()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Fred, Fritz, and Rick are shown here in August 1988 performing at an FPB gig in Highmarket, NY. Fred, Rick, Fritz, and Gabe are shown here during FPB's summer 1987 gig at the Oneida County Fair in Boonville, NY. Fred, Fritz, and Gabe pose for a photo during rehearsal at the Scherz home in Verona, NY in early 1987.
Gabe, Rebe (former FPB member, sitting), Charlie (former FPB drummer), Fritz, and Fred are pictured here in 1985 at an FPB gig in Clinton, NY. Fred and Fritz are pictured here at an FPB gig on October 25, 1981 at the Rome Polish Home in Rome, NY. Rebe (former FPB member), Fred, Fritz, and Gabe are shown here on June 19, 1979 at an FPB gig.


A bench of justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan had on November 1 last year reserved its verdict on the petitions challenging the notifications issued by the Centre and the Delhi government.
On October 4, last year, the Delhi government had told the apex court that it wanted its petitions relating to governance of the national capital be heard soon as it did not want "stalemate to continue in administration".
The Delhi government had told the top court that it wanted to know where it stands with regard to the administration in view of the Constitution bench verdict of apex court on July 4.
In the landmark verdict, it had unanimously held that Delhi cannot be accorded the status of a state but clipped the powers of the Lieutenant Governor (LG), saying he has no "independent decision making power" and has to act on the aid and advice of the elected government.
On September 19, last year, the Centre had told the apex court that administration of Delhi cannot be left to the Delhi government alone and emphasised that it has an "extraordinary" position by virtue of being the country's capital.
The Centre had told court that a five-judge constitution bench of the apex court had categorically held that Delhi cannot be accorded the status of a state.
The Centre had contended that one of the basic issues was that whether the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has the legislative and executive powers so far as 'services' were concerned.
"Delhi has an extraordinary position as it is the capital of the country," it had said.


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A brief explanation of the platings used on our pen parts.
CHROME: Chrome is a very familiar metal plating. Chrome is an excellent choice for a moderately priced plating that is quite durable and wears well. Chrome has a brilliant shine and compliments any wood or plastic pen material.
GOLD-24k: This is gold in it elemental form, and though the plating may be somewhat thick and well done, will eventually wear showing the base metal underneath. The base metal is often a brass alloy and the wearing of the gold to expose the brass base is called brassing.
GOLD-22k and 10k: This plating is an alloy of gold and other metals. Although much more durable than 24k, even this gold will eventually show wear and brassing.
Many gold plated pen parts are covered with an epoxy coating which helps to make the gold plating more durable and wearable. But remember, thses gold platings will wear away with time.
TITANIUM GOLD: Titanium plating produces one of the the most durable finishes...In fact, it may well be the hardest of all metal finishes on pens. The process uses what is called PVD (particle vapor deposition). Titanium gold is a cost effective alternative to real gold. Titanium and zirconium nitride is matched to the color of real gold and is molecularly bonded to the pen parts, 24k gold is bonded (sputtered) on the parts to achieve a color match to gold and parts are again re-plated after this step. The final result is a lustrous bright gold finish that will virtually never show wear.
BLACK TITANIUM: A very durable finish. The black titanium finish is produced very similarly to the gold titanium process above. But instead of a gold layer, a black later is bonded between the titanium and zirconium nitride layers. Black titanium can take on several different looks depending how light is reflected. The color can be various shades of black, grey, gunmetal or chorme.
PLATINUM AND RHODIUM: These two metals are closely related and are chrome or silver in color. They are both very durable and will give many many years of trouble free service. Platinum and rhodium are elelgant and rich looking finish for pens.
A FINAL WORD ON PLATING: There is no way to give a quantitative answer as to how long these platings will last. Wearability will be largely determined by the usage, the environment where the pen is used, the body chemistry of the owner, and the care with which the pen is given. Except for the 10k, 23k, and 24k, the platings used will give several years of faithful service.


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Frits Thaulow
Christiania, Norway
5 November 1906(1906-11-05) (aged 59)
Volendam, Netherlands
Order of Saint Olav (Commander)
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Legion of Honour (Officer)
Nichan Iftikhar
Frits Thaulow (20 October 1847 – 5 November 1906) was a Norwegian Impressionist painter, best known for his naturalistic depictions of landscape.[1]
3 Selected gallery
Frits Thaulow, ca 1900. Photograph by Anders Beer Wilse.
Johan Frederik Thaulow was born in Christiania, the son of a wealthy chemist, Harald Conrad Thaulow (1815–1881), and Nicoline ("Nina") Louise Munch (1821–1894). Thaulow was educated at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 1870–1872, and from 1873 until 1875 he studied with Hans Gude at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe.[2][3]
Thaulow was one of the earliest artists to paint in Skagen in the north of Jutland, soon to become famous for its Skagen Painters. He arrived there in 1879 with his friend Christian Krohg, who persuaded him to spend the summer and autumn there. They arrived from Norway in Thaulow's little boat. Thaulow, who had specialized in marine painting, turned to Skagen's favourite subjects, the fishermen and the boats on the shore.[4]
After his stay in Skagen, Thaulow returned to Norway in 1880. He became one of the leading young figures in the Norwegian art scene, together with Christian Krohg and Erik Werenskiold, and he helped establish the first National Art Exhibit (also known as Høstutstillingen or Autumn Exhibit) in 1882. Many of Thaulow's best known Norwegian scenes are from Åsgårdstrand, which had become an important center for artists and painters dating from the 1880s.[5]
Thaulow moved to France in 1892, living there until his death in 1906. He soon discovered that the cityscapes of Paris did not suit him. His best paintings were made in small towns such as Montreuil-sur-Mer (1892–94), Dieppe and surrounding villages (1894–98), Quimperle in Brittany (1901) and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in the Corrèze département (1903). [6] In Dieppe Thaulow and his wife Alexandra made themselves popular: they were friends with artist Charles Conder, and they met Aubrey Beardsley.[7]
Thaulow received a number of honors for his artistic activity, including his appointment as commander of the 2nd Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1905. He received the French Legion of Honor, the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus from Italy and the Order of Nichan Iftikhar from Tunisia. He died in Volendam, in The Netherlands. The National Gallery of Norway features 37 of his works. Other prominent displays include the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University.
Thaulow was married twice. In 1874 he married Ingeborg Charlotte Gad (1852–1908). The marriage dissolved in 1886. In 1886, he married Alexandra Lasson (1862–1955), the daughter of Carl Lasson (1830–1893), a noted Norwegian attorney. He had three children with his second wife: Harald Thaulow (1887–1971), Ingrid Thaulow (1892–1983) and Christian Lasson Thaulow (1895–).[8]
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Portrait of Frederik Collett
Norsk vinterlandskap
Ambiance Du Soir
Ponte Pietra, Verona
Area of Venice
Kveldstemning, Dieppe
A Château in Normandy
Fra Dieppe med elven Arques
Måneskinn Dieppe
Boulevard de la Madeleine à Paris
Fra Akerselven
Marmortrappen
Moonlight in Beaulieu
Place Marbot
Under the Rialto Bridge of Venice
View of Venice
The Priest
^ Frits Thaulow – utdypning (Store norske leksikon)
^ Harald Thaulow (Store norske leksikon)
^ Frits Thaulow (Kulturnett.no) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Frits Thaulow: 'Fra Skagen' 1879", Blomqvist. (in Norwegian) Retrieved 25 October 2013.
^ Impressionism: Frits Thaulow (Allpaintings Art Portal) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Norwegian painter and engraver Frits Thaulow (GoNorway)
^ Simona Pakenham, Sixty Miles from England, p.148-149
^ Alexandra Lasson on Geni website
Pakenham, Simona. Sixty Miles from England: The English at Dieppe 1814-1914, (London, Macmillan, 1967).
Poulsson, Vidar Frits Thaulow: 1847-1906 (B.A. Mathisen. 1992) ISBN 978-82-91255-00-2
Poulsson, Vidar; Thune, Richard M. Frits Thaulow (Hirschl & Adler Galleries; 1985)
Haverkamp, Frode (trans. Joan Fuglesang) Hans Fredrik Gude: From National Romanticism to Realism in Landscape (Aschehoug. 1992) ISBN 978-82-03-17072-0
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frits Thaulow.
Kulturnett.no
Small town square, Fritz Thaulow on the official website of the Musée Rodin.
Alexandra Lasson on Geni
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Skagen Painters
Associated landmarks
Skagens Museum
Brøndums Hotel
Michael and Anna Ancher's House
Drachmann's House
Early visitors
Christian Blache
Vilhelm Melbye
Johan Peter Raadsig
Martinus Rørbye
Main group of painters
Viggo Johansen
Johan Krouthén
Marie Krøyer
P. S. Krøyer (paintings of Marie)
Carl Locher
Karl Madsen
Thorvald Niss
Julius Paulsen
Eilif Peterssen
Associated painters
Jørgen Aabye
Helga Ancher
G. F. Clement
Tupsy Clement
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Ella Heide
Einar Hein
Ludvig Karsten
Vilhelm Kyhn
Frederik Lange
Charles Lundh
Anna Palm de Rosa
Wilhelm Peters
Julius Runge
Adrian Stokes
Marianne Stokes
Fritz Stoltenberg
Johannes Wilhjelm
J. F. Willumsen
Other associates
Hugo Alfvén
Georg Brandes
Degn Brøndum
Holger Drachmann
Heinrich Hirschsprung
Ulrik Plesner
Notable paintings
Men of Skagen on a Summer Evening in Fair Weather (1848)
Launching the Boat. Skagen (1884)
Will He Round the Point? (1885)
Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (1888)
Sunlight in the Blue Room (1891)
Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore (1892)
Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (1893)
Roses (1893)
Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife (1899)
Harvesters (1905)
Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach (1906)
The North Sea in Stormy Weather (1909)
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Recipients of the Order of Glory (Ottoman Empire)
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Bruce Springsteen To Join Dropkick Murphys At Historic Fenway Concert
By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta May 19, 2020
Dropkick Murphys will perform a historic live-streamed concert from Boston's Fenway Park for free on May 29 at 6 p.m. ET with Bruce Springsteen joining them for two songs.
Not only will the concert be the first one at Fenway to take place within an empty stadium, the punk band will also be the first band in history to perform within the infield diamond.
Since no audience can come to the ballpark, Dropkick Murphys invited fans to take part in the show with their "rowdy kids and neighbors right from your own living room or backyard."
The 'Streaming Outta Fenway' concert is being made a reality by Boston tech company Pegasystems. It's all serving as a fundraiser for the Boston Resiliency Fund, Habitat for Humanity and Feeding America.
"These organizations put their donations to work now — to help real people in need," said the band.
Springsteen and Dropkick Murphys have collaborated numerous times in the past. Murphys featured Springsteen on their cover of "Peg O' My Heart" on their 2011 album Going Out in Style.
In 2013, Springsteen and Dropkick Murphy's recorded "Rose Tattoo" together to raise money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.


Testing Version 1.6 on my PHP 7.2 XAMPP test site and get this error when attempting to create a legitimate account.
It's failing because you have the option to use the IPV6 format enabled. I may put a check in for what type of IP it is but I don't know that I will be changing the code to accept them. IPV6 IP's are still not used much so I don't find it worthwhile, time-wise, to code for them.
I was not aware of that. Is that in PHP 7.2 or is it in the XAMPP set up? I cannot see a setting for it.
You might want to read this article on CAPTCHAs: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence . It states that AI is expected to improve to the point that it will solve any CAPTCHA puzzle much better than humans can. It's just about there, already. The emphasis will have to shift from how perfectly the "user" can solve a problem to watching how very human imperfections and randomness in the interaction betray who is human. Also, rather than relying on a one-time hard-shell defense against bots, we will have to watch users in their interactions with a site and see if they're doing bot-like things. Big Brother, anyone? The article points out that Third World CAPTCHA farms use people to sign up for forums and blogs, etc., which then can be handed over to bots to do the spamming. This would require monitoring of the user interactions beyond just the signup, such as an occasional CAPTCHA challenge from time to time. If most spammers crap on your forum just once (or use your tell-a-friend function for one mass mailing) and then never come back, that may be more annoying than useful.
The comments are rather interesting too. Several people pointed out that the reCAPTCHA emphasis on traffic lights and street signs and vehicle recognition suggests that we are being used to train Google's self-driving cars -- for free.
@MrPhilThanks for the link. It finally offers a reasonable explanation as to why fake accounts are becoming a common thing. I don't think there is any code that can stop all of them unless some check is added and that is a bother to real customers.
But for this addon, their scripts can't get by the contact us and create account pages because those checks are done in php. Although for the create account page, if the settings are strict, like one account allowed, then it might affect legitimate customers.
Just installed this on my two responsive bootstrap sites and it's working great. Thanks a million for all your work, Jack!
Just attempting a new install of v1.6 on a CE store. Forgive me if i'm having a blond moment. I notice some discrepancies between instructions 3 & 4 in the ReadMe.txt and the files in "v234\ChangedFiles". There are additional bits of code in the files not in the ReadMe.txt.
This part of code is not mentioned in the ReadMe.txt.
Please can you confirm, am i ok to go with the instructions in the ReadMe.txt and ignore the changed files?


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Parisian Kenzo extends its fashion renditions to the comfort of your home with this logo print dressing gown. Made from soft cotton-blend jersey, it has the label's logo printed across the sleeve, a cosy hood and two practical front pockets. Wrap yourself after a shower (or a more soothing long bath) or simply as you wake up in the morning – and no, it's not appropriate office attire (unfortunately).


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Tune In To Social Media for Nurses!
By Keith // August 29, 2013
Social media is everywhere, and there are so many ways that you, as a nurse, can keep your finger on the pulse of what's happening in the profession by tuning into social media.
Twitter is truly a force to be reckoned with. Like an online cocktail party, the streams of information on Twitter can be overwhelming, but there are many ways to navigate those streams and find what interests you the most.
"Hashtags" (keywords preceded by a "#") are ways to search Twitter for content you want to know about. For instance, you can type #nurse or #nursing into the search bar in Twitter, and you'll see any post that a user has posted with that particular hashtag in it.
There are also Twitter aggregators (like "Hootsuite") that you can program to follow certain hashtags, making it easier for you to check in on the conversation.
I personally follow over 800 nurses and nursing organizations on Twitter, and the conversations and sharings can be powerful, fun and informative. (I even met my business partner on Twitter!)
Everyone and their mother uses Facebook (well, almost), and this includes individuals, businesses, and other organizations and groups. I follow many. many nurses and healthcare professionals on Facebook, and I have both a personal Facebook profile and three for my various businesses and endeavors.
Facebook is even now using a hashtag system, so you can now type a hashtag like "#nursing" into the search bar at the top and see every post that includes that hashtag. It's a great way to tune into what people are saying on this hugely popular social network with a global reach.
Google+ is Google's answer to Facebook, and although many of us (myself included) have been slow to adopt it, it has multiple uses for both personal and business use.
On Google+, you can follow others and group certain people into "circles" that you follow and can communicate with. These "circles" can grow exponentially, and the information shared within them is enormous. I, of course, follow many nurses on Google+, and I like it more and more as I begin to enjoy what it has to offer.
Linked In is a powerful platform for career development and professional networking. Many people still don't know how to use it well, but if you get some help and set up a powerful and robust profile for yourself, it's a great way to network with professionals who share your interests.
Linked In is like a giant search engine for careers and professional growth and development, and I've used it successfully to meet many colleagues with whom I have a great deal in common.
You can also think of your Linked In profile as your online resume, although it's more like a resume on steroids. By having colleagues write you recommendations and endorse you for your specific skills, your profile is a CV with the power of the Internet behind it. For those who want to advance, change or improve their careers, Linked in is the place.
It's How You Use It
Many people complain that social media is superficial, but it's what you make of it, really. Sure, some people just play around on Facebook and post cute videos and funny jokes, but if you "work" social media the right way, you can make friends, have fun, advance your career, learn a lot, and really keep your finger on the pulse of things that matter most to you.
Keith Carlson is a holistic career coach for nurses, award-winning nurse blogger, writer, podcaster, speaker, author, and popular career columnist.
With two decades of nursing experience, Keith deeply understands the issues faced by 21st-century nurses. Keith's two podcasts, RNFM Radio and The Nurse Keith Show, offer inspiration and practical support to nurses seeking to create meaningful, satisfying lives and careers.
Keith's message of savvy career management and professional satisfaction reaches tens of thousands of nurses worldwide. Keith can be found on many social media platforms, as well as at NurseKeith.com.
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Квалификация (отборочный турнир) 11-го чемпионата Европы по волейболу среди женщин прошла в период с 25 апреля по 20 мая 1979 года. Всего в квалификации приняли участие 11 национальных сборных команд. Было разыграно 6 путёвок в финальный турнир европейского первенства. От квалификации освобождены Франция (страна-организатор), СССР, ГДР, Венгрия, Польша, Чехословакия (по итогам предыдущего чемпионата Европы).

Команды-участницы
Австрия, Англия, Бельгия, Болгария, Израиль, Нидерланды, Румыния, Турция, ФРГ, Швейцария, Югославия.

Результаты

Группа А
25—29.04.1979. (Румыния)

Группа В
4—6.05.1979. (ФРГ)

Группа С
18—20.05.1979. Алмере (Нидерланды)

 18 мая: Болгария — Израиль 3:0 (15:5, 15:4, 15:4); Нидерланды — Австрия 3:0 (15:8, 15:8, 15:6).
 19 мая: Нидерланды — Австрия 3:0 (15:0, 15:7, 15:3); Нидерланды — Израиль 3:0 (15:4, 15:10, 15:-).
 20 мая: Австрия — Израиль 3:0; Болгария — Нидерланды 3:0 (15:10, 15:10, 15:10).

Итоги
По итогам квалификационного турнира путёвки на чемпионат Европы 1979 года получили по две лучшие команды из групп — Румыния, Бельгия, Югославия, ФРГ, Болгария, Нидерланды.

Ссылки
 Архив волейбольных результатов

Чемпионаты Европы по волейболу среди женщин
1979 год в волейболе
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It's been ages since I posted anything on this blog. Life has a funny way of getting busy and staying busy. In any case I've had a few ideas for general gaming articles and some more home-brew creations. This is stuff that's separate from the Known World but should be usable in any campaign.
"Tactical Templates" can be applied to nearly any DnD monster and combined with strategic choices to make encounters more engaging without a full monster redesign.
The first template is the Shield Bearer which can be applied to any humanoid threat at any CR to add a little bit of flavor while adding a cooperative theme to your monstrous horde.
Theme: A threat that uses a massive shield to aid their allies.
Suggested Tactics: Stand in a line or ring around Ranged Allies and take the Dodge action until engaged in Melee. Always stand with other Shield Bearers and never leave ranged allies unprotected.
Shield Wall. Any ranged attack that enters your threat range (5' radius in all directions) has disadvantage. Does not work on attacks that target you directly.
Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack. + (Prof + Str) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8+Str) bludgeoning damage. A target struck by this attack must make a Strength Saving Throw (DC 8+Prof+Str) or be knocked 10' directly away from the Shield Bearer.
Shield Ally. If a melee or ranged attack targets an ally within 5' of you, you may use your reaction to give that attack disadvantage. You cannot use this on attacks that target you directly.
Martial Advantage. Once per turn, the hobgoblin can deal an extra 7 (2d6) damage to a creature it hits with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 ft. of an ally of the hobgoblin that isn't incapacitated.
Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack. +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8+1) bludgeoning damage. A target struck by this attack must make a Strength Saving Throw (DC 11) or be knocked 10' directly away from the hobgoblin.
Shield Ally. If a melee or ranged attack targets something within 5' of the hobgoblin, the hobgoblin may use their reaction to give that attack disadvantage. The hobgoblin cannot use this on attacks that target them directly.
Design Notes: This creature is intended as a must deal with wall between the players and ranged targets.


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A Jamaica participou dos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1988 em Seul, na Coreia do Sul. Conquistou nenhuma medalha de ouro, duas de prata e nenhuma de bronze, somando duas no total. Foi a décima participação do país em Jogos Olímpicos de Verão.

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Araceli Segarra First Spanish Woman to Summit Everest. Filmed Everest IMAX documentary during the Everest's Worst Disaster.
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Climbing The Adversity and Mountains of Change
In her motivational talks, Araceli Segarra relates to the experience she went through during the shooting of the famous IMAX documentary movie Everest. She uses it as a metaphor to value the different aspects of human nature, which in these conditions is pushed to the limits.
In her presentation we are also going to see some of the analogies that exist between the complicated ascent of a mountain and the not less difficult business life.
Everest, the Mindset of a Team to Conquer The Summit
Team up to conquer our goals
Not That High and Not That Difficult
Not so High No so difficult is based on the topics of the book "Not so High No so difficult" where we approach our goals as we climb a mountain, taking them step at step, reaching high camps.
Not That High and Not That Difficult is a genuine crossover, a work that all kinds of readers will love, and for different reason.It is the story, told in first person, of the first Spanish speaking woman to climb Everest.It is a practical book of how the same tenacity and resolve can help readers to achieve any goal they set for themselves. It is also an eyewitness account of some many important events. For instance, the 1996 four expeditions to Everest suffered fatalities, which caused a huge international stir and gave rise to a major controversial best-sell: "in to thin air" by Jon Krakauer.
Araceli was part of the rescue team and in "Not That High and Not That Difficult" she gives as her fascinating and dramatic first-person account. Inspirational. Controversial. Dramatic. Araceli's Segarra debut as a writer will, logically, reach new heights.When she decided to take part in a film about mountaineering, the result was Everest, the biggest IMAX film box-office success of all times. And when she decided that her experience could help allot of companies achieve excellence, her motivational speeches where (and still are) requested by the biggest corporations.
Change management, leadership, mindset, team up, dealing with uncertainty, fear, risk and effort, overcoming obstacles, attitude, breaking paradigms, visualization, adversity, resilience, determination, decisions making, work-life balance, strategy and many other concepts will take you to a great ride.The first Spanish woman to scale the heights of Everest. International model. Motivational speaker for internationals companies. For the first time veer Araceli Segarra lets as in on all the secrets of her exceptional life….and how can make your own life exceptional."This book will take you along a journey that few have taken and many have not know about"
The Attitude That Leads To the Highest and Best
The attitude that leads as to the highest summits
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2019 Not That High and Not That Difficult
Araceli Segara is a climber, model, photographer, television and radio host, a children's book illustrator, a mountaineer and star of the IMAX film Everest. She climbed this mountain after helping on rescue of the worse tragedy that happen on this mountain in 1996. She is probably best known as the first Spanish woman to stand on the summit of Everest, and for the numerous climbing expeditions she has organised. In the spring of 2009 Araceli will be going back to Everest with the IMAX team to film a new documentary called Return to Everest."Spain's most famous mountaineer"
In detail Araceli began her prestigious career as one of the world's leading female climbers at the tender age of twenty years, when she successfully climbed Mount Kenya, the highest peak on the African continent. Just one year later she organised and played a leading role in her first major expedition to the Himalaya. But her real breakthrough came in 1996 when as part of the Catalan Everest North Face Expedition Team Araceli stood on top of the world.
What she offers you The multi-faceted, charming and charismatic Araceli is in great demand as a speaker at leading conferences around the globe. She talks in depth about her climbing experiences and inspires audiences with her fantastic stories.
How she presents Both an experienced media personality and conference presenter Araceli's presentations are highly enjoyable and backed up with dramatic and awe-inspiring images from her expeditions.
Languages: She presents in English, Spanish and Catalan.


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Hungary strikes 100 million USD export deal with China
Hungarian exports to China increased by 23 percent during the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in the previous year
Eastern Partnership FDI Trade
Peter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has signed several agreements that could see Hungarian food industry exports to China exceed 100 million USD this year.
Szijjártó and China's Deputy Commerce Minister Zhong Shan opened the Hungarian-Chinese investment and trade forum with the participation of around 40 Hungarian enterprises sand 50 Chinese companies.
Szijjártó also met with Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng and with the Deputy Minister of the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Sun Dawei.
It was revealed that Chinese authorities would be lifting their ban on the import of Hungarian goose and duck meat, which was introduced last year as a result of the bird flu virus. This also opened an opportunity to close negotiations on exports of chicken and turkey.
In addition, the auditing of another four Hungarian companies along with the three who already have valid import licences for frozen pork will be ordered.
"We have also successfully brought negotiations on the protocol for the export of milk products to a close, and this means that the Chinese authorities will begin the preliminary expert and quality testing of the Hungarian enterprises involved," he said.
The Hungarian and Chinese parties concluded four agreements on the side-lines of the ministerial level China and Eastern-Central European investment and trade expo, Szijjártó assessed this as another breakthrough in Hungarian-Chinese economic and trade relations.
Last year, the largest volume of imports from Central Europe arrived in China from Hungary and 2015 was the first year ever in which China was Hungary's number one trade partner outside the European Union.
Hungarian exports to China increased by 23 percent during the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in the previous year, while food industry exports grew by 250 percent, the minister highlighted.
To "maintain momentum" within the sector, a new food safety cooperation will be launched that could provide a market advantage to Hungarian companies since Hungary's food safety regulations are the strictest in Europe and the GMO-free status of Hungarian agriculture is included in the country's constitution.
Based on Hungarian-Chinese economic, trade and business relations, Minister Szijjártó said the forum was a clear success that the main target of the Hungarian Government's policy of opening towards the East, namely that the country should become the main bridgehead for the economic expansion of successful Chinese companies in Europe, appeared to be reaching fruition.
"Our goal is for successful companies that bring production capacities to Europe bring them to Hungary. Last year, the 4th, 5th and 6th most investment in Hungary came from China, India and Japan, respectively. This clearly indicates that Hungary can provide an attractive investment environment," he highlighted.
The fact that the total value of Chinese investments in Hungary exceeded 3.5 billion USD last year and that Chinese companies are now providing work for 7,500 people in Hungary is a great success, he concluded.
The Press Has More Freedom in Eastern Europe than in the Continent's Western Half
Reacting to a statement by Sweden's foreign minister on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a statement that recently it has become obvious that the press has more freedom in Eastern Europe than in the continent's western half.
On Facebook Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Congratulates the Creators of Son of Saul
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the creators and actors of Son of Saul for winning the Golden Globe Award in Los Angeles for best foreign language film.
Reinstating Military Conscription is not Necessary
In response to a statement by Sweden's foreign minister, on Sunday Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi told public television channel M1 that the Government of Hungary does not see the necessity for reintroduction of military conscription. Keeping the manpower of the reserve force at appropriate levels is important however, he stressed.
János Lázár to Have Talks in Brussels
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office will pay a visit to Brussels on Tuesday where he will have talks with EU Commissioners and Hungarian diplomats.
How much of Hungary's household debt was in foreign currency-denominated loans in 2010?