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DADT vote stalls in Senate
News update Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010
by Lisa Keen, Keen News Service
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The Senate has rejected a motion to break a Republican-led filibuster against an annual defense-spending bill that includes language aimed at ending the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ( DADT ) law banning gays. The vote was 56 to 43.
The vote was uncertain all the way up to the vote, which started at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, as Democratic leaders were reportedly trying to negotiate an agreement with one or two senators to reach the 60-vote count they needed to proceed. But Republicans stood united in their contention that a procedural restriction placed on consideration of the annual defense-spending bill was politically motivated to win the votes of LGBT people and Latinos for the mid-term elections in November.
In the end, all seven moderate Republicans who were identified as potential supporters on the motion to proceed on the defense bill voted "no," as did Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's rule called for amendments to be considered on only three items during discussion of the defense authorization bill this week—DADT, immigration and a Senate rule on secret holds on nominations. All other amendments, he said, would be taken up after the mid-term elections.
Republican leadership immediately balked and charged Reid with playing politics with the defense bill. They refused to grant the necessary unanimous consent to proceed with consideration of the bill. So, Reid filed a motion last week to require the Senate to vote Tuesday on a motion to proceed without unanimous consent. That motion required 60 votes.
But that was no confidence that even all 59 Democrats would agree. Reports were circulating even as late as the afternoon of Sept. 21 that Senator Jim Webb, D-Va., might balk. But in the end, Webb stuck with Democrats and voted to proceed.
Pro-repeal advocates identified seven moderate Republicans they thought might be persuaded to vote for cloture, but on Sept. 20, one of those—Olympia Snowe of Maine—said no, and on the morning of Sept. 21 Susan Collins of Maine and George LeMieux of Florida joined her in refusing to cross the partisan divide.
Snowe said she believes DADT warrants a "thorough review," but she said the Senate should hold off its vote on repeal until after the Pentagon submits its report on implementation of repeal. The report is due Dec. 1.
Snowe also said she objected to Reid's limiting of the debate to just three amendments.
Collins, who supports the DADT repeal language, expressed anguish at Reid limiting the amendments. Even though she supports the repeal of DADT, said Collins, "I will defend the right of my colleagues to offer amendments on this issue and others. They deserve to have a civil, fair, and open debate on the Senate floor."
Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., said on the floor Sept. 21 that he, too, would oppose proceeding to the defense bill, saying he believed there should be an "open amendment" process.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Collins raised some "legitimate objections," and he assured both senators there would be an "open process." But he said there could be consideration of no amendments unless the Senate agrees to proceed to the defense authorization bill.
Reid did allow Republicans 15 minutes additional to debate the motion and enabled Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to propose a different procedure—one that would have apparently enabled unlimited amendments, the first 20 of which would have to be defense-related and none of which could relate to immigration. Reid, looking impatient, characterized McConnell's proposal as partisan bickering per usual and objected, forcing the motion for cloture to vote immediately.
Republicans had been beating a drum for the past week that two of the three amendments Reid would allow were non-defense related and shouldn't be part of the discussion. Log Cabin Republicans, which supports repeal of DADT, issued a press release Monday calling Reid's limit on amendments "partisan tactics" and urging Reid to allow other amendments.
But Levin disputed that argument. On the floor of the Senate Sept. 20, he itemized all the non-defense related amendments that have been considered on the defense authorization bill in previous years—including years in which Republicans were in the majority. In particular, he emphasized an amendment offered in 2000 by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on campaign reform.
Much of the news leading up to the Sept. 21 vote was focused on the involvement of popular performer Lady Gaga, who has used her various media platforms to direct attention to the effort to repeal DADT. The previous day, she led a rally in Portland, Maine, hoping to persuade the state's two senators—Snowe and Collins—to vote for cloture ( a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote ) Sept. 21.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., questioned Levin's claims that top military leaders support repeal, saying Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is an appointee of President Obama and that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has not been an enthusiastic supporter of repeal. Sessions said Gates has simply "gone along" with Obama's directive. He noted that the chiefs of the various individual branches of military oppose the repeal.
Reid noted during Senate morning business Sept. 21 that the DADT amendment had been generating "all the attention" for the defense-bill vote. He emphasized that the DADT law "is not repealed" by the language in the bill. Instead, he noted, the language provides for a process by which the law can be repealed. That process requires that the president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff all "certify" in writing that they have read the Pentagon report on how best to implement repeal and have considered whatever recommendations are made in the report. They must further certify that the necessary regulations to accompany repeal have been developed and that repeal is "consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the Armed Forces."
Minority Leader Mitchell said the cloture vote on the defense bill was a political tactic by Democrats seeking to "show special interest groups that they haven't forgotten about them."
McCain, one of the most ardent opponents of DADT repeal, said he was not opposed to debating repeal but was opposed to bringing up the defense bill before the Pentagon survey of troops is completed.
"This is all about elections," said McCain, who contended that voting on DADT would be "ignoring" the views of the troops, adding, "We are pursuing the social agenda of the Democratic party."
Vice President Joe Biden said last week he was vigorously working for passage of the DADT repeal, but his schedule on Sept. 21 kept him in meetings at the White House. The White House issued a statement, through its Office of Management and Budget, expressing support for the overall defense-authorization bill. The statement listed 15 areas of "concern." The fifth issue listed was DADT; the statement said it supports the language that calls for the certification process leading to repeal of DADT.
On MSNBC Sept. 21, Alex Nicholson, head of Servicemembers United, criticized Reid for pushing the cloture vote without compromising on how many amendments could be heard: "If Senator Reid would just budge a little bit and come to an agreement on a reasonable way to proceed, we could potentially get the votes. But so far, he's not been willing to do that, unfortunately."
As majority leader, Reid has the option to bring the cloture motion up again at any point.
©2010 Keen News Service
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Financing Climate Action: SAP's Investment in the Livelihoods Carbon Funds
August 6, 2020 by Yasemin Kiran, Cathrin Falk
For the third time, SAP will undertake a long-term investment of €3 million in the Livelihoods Carbon Funds (LCF). The funds finance large-scale ecosystem restoration, agroforestry, biodiversity preservation, and clean energy projects in developing countries to enable much-needed climate action and improve the lives of communities around the world.
With the objective to create positive economic, environmental, and social impact within planetary boundaries, SAP has made a tremendous effort to become a more sustainable company over the past 10 years. Combatting the damage caused by climate change is one of the company's sustainability priorities.
"SAP's key lever is our product portfolio, with which we can enable customers to reduce their carbon outputs and transition to a low-carbon economy," says SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid. "If we look at our broad reach with more than 400,000 customers, the potential for us to make a difference could be enormous. To be credible, we have to start with ourselves though."
Aiming to lead by example, SAP aspires to become carbon neutral in its own operations by 2025 and to contribute to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 13: Climate Action. SAP has a three-pillar approach to achieve this: avoid, reduce, and compensate carbon emissions. While avoiding and reducing CO2 emissions altogether comes first and a portfolio of corresponding measures is being established, some emissions are unavoidable today. This is where projects realized through the LCF come into play.
The first LCF was launched by corporate investors, such as Danone, Hermès, SAP, and Schneider Electric, in 2011 to support programs that protect the climate, restore ecosystems, promote sustainable agriculture, and improve smallholders' and vulnerable people's lives. Since this perfectly aligns with the company's purpose to help the world run better and improve people's lives, SAP is committed to participate in the third LCF with an investment of €3 million. The funds are long-term, project-bound investments to achieve resilience at scale. Launched in 2017, the Livelihoods Carbon Fund #2 has been created to accelerate climate action, bring current projects at a larger scale, and finance new projects to improve the lives of millions in communities.
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Coastal Trees to Keep Tsunamis at Bay
One of the funds' most accomplished reforestation projects is with Yagasu, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works on mangrove restoration in Indonesia. Coastal trees have been proven to be crucial in areas that are frequently affected by tsunamis – just 30 of them per 100 square meter can help reduce tsunami flow by 90 percent. With progressing deforestation due to industrialization in Northern Sumatra, effects of future tsunamis would affect the area even more.
So far, around 18 million mangrove trees have been planted, restoring over 5,000 hectares of mangrove forests and positively impacting the lives of 20,000 people. Apart from providing vital agricultural land, the mangroves also allow local villagers to generate additional income by selling some of the byproducts from the small ecosystem, such as fish and mollusks. Additionally, these trees will help capture approximately 2 million tons of CO2 over a period of 20 years. This is where the investment contributes to SAP's carbon-neutral goal. Instead of monetary compensation, investors receive carbon credits of high social and environmental value to offset some of their inevitable emissions.
Silk Threads to Offset Emissions
The newest 2020 project financed by the LCF #2 will establish and enable livelihoods from silk tree plantations in India, the world's largest silk consumer and second largest producer of tasar silk. Tasar silk production involves rearing silkworms on trees where they will feed on leaves before cocooning themselves. Each cocoon is made of a single thread that can be processed into yarn and silk fabric.
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Bicycle History: The Sky-Cycle, the World's First Flying Bicycle
May 10, 2021 August 25, 2021 ~ Steve Wartenberg
The first to fly? Wilbur and Orville Wright, right? At Kitty Hawk, in 1903. Maybe, maybe not. It depends on your definition of flying. So, let's stretch the definition a bit, and pay homage to the great Professor Carl Myers. He was the inventor and pilot of the pedal-powered Aerial Bicycle, also known as the Air Velocipede and Sky-Cycle.
The balloon takes off
Man, and woman, first took to the air, in hot-air balloons, all the way back in 1783. Jump ahead a little more than a century, to the age of the bicycle, and: Let's combine the two concepts and sling a bicycle underneath a balloon. The pilot will turn the pedals, which will turn the propeller, or propellers, and propel the machine forward. Or to the right or the left. Or in a circle, if you so desire. The balloon provides the lift; the bike and propellers provide the thrust. It's simple physics. Let's do it.
There were plenty of inventors who experimented with and tested this concept, as the entire world was fascinated by the possibility of flight, and, advances in technology made it seem more and more possible. Myers was the first, most successful and famous of the flying-balloon bicyclists. Born in 1842, he eventually became interested in the making and flying of hydrogen-filled balloons. His wife, Mary, helped with the manufacture of the balloons on their "Balloon Farm" in Frankfort, New York. She eventually joined the traveling act, became known as Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut, and jumped out of balloons … with a parachute.
This was a popular and frightening feat that was performed by daredevils at county fairs and parks back then.
Prof. Carl Myers has made several satisfactory tests with his new invention, the air velocipede, which will soon be in shape to give public exhibitions of its workings. Altoona Times, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1889
Ah, a public exhibition. This all-important step, of going from describing your invention to a newspaper reporter, who then wrote about it, to actually building and demonstrating it was the step that tripped up many inventors. Not Myers.
The August 31, 1892 edition of the Hamilton Evening Journal, Ohio, described the upcoming performance of Myers' wonderful air ship …
This is no hot air hocus-pocus where the so-called "aeronaut" goes up about as high as a church steeple and then comes down, but an actual flying machine, that speeds and spins in the air like a bird. It is worked by foot pedals like an ordinary bicycle, but goes through the air instead of on the ground, and is supported by a hydrogen gas spindle unlike any other form or creation. It has made numerous outdoor exhibitions before thousands of people, and has never failed to rise and move away at the will of the rider.
National tour
Myers and Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut, toured the country, performing all sorts of aerial feats. He also made balloons for the U.S. Army that were used, in Texas, to determine if man could make it rain … by setting off bombs, high up, in the air, in the midst of clouds. The results were inconclusive. By August 1895, Myers had improved his air ship, adding wings for greater stability and ease of turning. To drum up some publicity, he made his flying machine available to a reporter at The World, one of New York's largest newspapers. To fly. Which the reporter did, of course, and wrote …
The World has settled the question that man can fly. A World reporter has succeeded in flying for hours here and there, backward and forward, up and down in the air. With the aid of a bicycle attachment and a pair of wings, the problem has been solved … No living human being on any other contrivance has ever done these extraordinary things in the air. No one else has succeeded in going against the wind. No other machine was ever able to stand still in the air … And no machine ever constructed could turn around in the air and travel backward. The wonderful flying machine does all these things.
The Lewis Airship
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More aeronauts
There were several others who claimed to invent or improve the flying bicycle balloon. Such as Oscar F. Lewis, of Saratoga, New York, who came up with the "new airship." There were articles about it in several newspapers in 1894 and 1895, none of which mentioned that Myers had already flown his sky-cycle. How did they not know? Anyway, in these articles, Lewis "claims" he can fly his machine 15 miles per hour and maneuver it quite easily. Claims is the key word, as there's no historical evidence, such as first-hand newspaper accounts or photographs, of Lewis and his airship in action. Perhaps it flew, but, even if he did, Myers beat him into the air by several years.
Barnard's bicycle balloon
Professor Arthur W. Barnard's bicycle balloon did take to the air. Once, as far as we know. In Nashville, Tennessee, before officials from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and a few hundred spectators and …
… rising as gracefully as a bird, he soared to a height of fifty feet, sailing against a somewhat stiff breeze, which would have born an ordinary balloon in the direction of Clarksville. He reversed his course twice and turned completely round, to show that he had the machine under control, then sped away in the direction of Memphis, and was soon out of sight.
Twelve miles from the city he was compelled to return to terra firma in consequence of the unavoidable accident to the propeller. He expressed himself as entirely satisfied with his trip. The Scranton Republican, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1897.
Professor Barnard promised to continue to perfect his airship, but there were no further newspapers articles that described any additional flights.
The next step … is down
Parachutes have been around just about as long as hot-air balloons and so, of course, some daring aeronauts decided to test them out … and jump out of a perfectly good balloon. Most of them survived. And then, this happened …
… at 3 o'clock a huge balloon with a canvas parachute, and Professor Kabrich of Sturgis, Michigan, astride a bicycle, hanging therto, shot two thousand feet up into space, and floated rapidly south over the town [of Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania] and in full view of the multitude the drop was started. It was a thrilling moment, but to the relief of the timid people the parachute filled out with air, and in a minute or so the daring aeronaut dropped into the fields. Pottsville Daily Republican, September 10, 1896
Professor Kabrich wasn't the only balloon-bicycle-parachutist, as it was a popular attraction at fairs. Professor Anthony "has accomplished a sensational descent at Luton by dropping from a height of 3,000ft. while 'pedalling' a bicycle," wrote The Pall Mall Gazette, London, on August 10, 1897. And yes, a lot of the early aeronautical daredevils were professors, of some sort. Perhaps they had received honorary degrees in aeronautical daring.
Here are some details from Professor Anthony's flight from the Pall Mall Gazette …
The parachute opened by an apparatus worked by "pedalling' the bicycle. And the "Professor" afterwards stated that he dropped 50 ft. before it opened properly. During that time he had to pedal hard. The descent was very slow on account of the parachute being rather too large and the parachutist was carried by the wind to some farms near Caddington, from which place he rode back to Luton.
The Balloon Farm
As for Myers, he continued to harvest his crop on the Balloon Farm. He applied for and received a patent for his Sky Bike Dirigible on April 20, 1897. Here it is …
It is a joke in the neighborhood that the "professor," as he is called, plants his balloon crop in the fall and gathers it in the spring. In the spring thousands of yards of balloon cloth are put out to dry, and the fields are made to look like Esquimau villages, with half inflated balloons looking like snow huts on the Northerners. Myers knows all about balloons, and he has a "skycycle" in which he has travelled many miles, going with wind currents, of which he has no fear. New York Tribune, December 20, 1901
And then, along came the Wright Brothers, and the public's complete fascination with the airplane, which soon relegated balloons to the back burner of publicity and interest (as the automobile did to the car). Myers passed away on November 30, 1925, at the home of his daughter, in Atlanta.
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Home famous old churches paintings The Camarin De La Virgen of the Parish Church of Nuestra Señora De Los Desamparados in Sta. Ana, Manila [Philippine National Cultural Treasures]
The Camarin De La Virgen of the Parish Church of Nuestra Señora De Los Desamparados in Sta. Ana, Manila [Philippine National Cultural Treasures]
Our architectural and built heritage tells us the story of our building traditions. One example is the Camarin De La Virgen of The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora De Los Desamparados in Sta. Ana, Manila.
The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora De Los Desamparados in Sta. Ana, Manila was built on a prehistoric burial site that was used from the 11th to the 14th centuries AD. The present church-convent complex is located on a parcel of land bounded New Panaderos Street on the north, Calderon Street on the west, and Lamayan Street on the south.
The church is cruciform in plan oriented with its main portal facing north, and an inner court enclosed by the adjoining convent on the east. It is famous for its image of Our Lady of the Abandoned. Devotees visit and pay homage for the customary Pahalik at The Camarin De La Virgen. Featuring 18th century paintings at the entrance and ceiling, it is a vestuary situated on the second floor south of the church's main altar or retablo mayor. The Camarin De La Virgen was declared National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum in 2008.
Considered as the most significant feature of the church, the Camarin was "constructed from 1720 to 1725, xxx has retained much of its original appearance with painted ceiling, gilded pilasters, azulejos tile floor, capiz windows and other original features." It is oriented with its longitudinal axis on the east-west axis, with a south interior wall shared with the church retablo, and the main portal or access on the east.
The Camarin has secondary access doors on three interior walls (east, south and west). The camarin measures 9.91 meters in length and 5.6 meters in width. It has a recessed ceiling segmented into ten (10) quadrilaterals and one central octagon, all decorated with paintings on wood.
While the central octagonal painting depicts Heaven, the surrounding paintings illustrate scenes from the lives of the Blessed Virgin and the young Jesus. One remarkable painting is the rendition of "Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds." The Camarin's ceiling height varies with 4.2 meters at its lowest point, and 5.7 meters at the central apex area. It is made of wood planks fastened on 4.5 centimeters by 10.5 centimeters wooden framework constructed as part of the roof's trusswork. The typical wooden truss is built up of bottom chords of about 17 centimeters by 18 centimeters, and top chords of about 19 centimeters by 12 centimeters. Supporting the paintings, the wood planks (varying from 18 to 19 centimeters in width) are joined edge to edge along the wood grain.
The paintings at the Camarin were restored in the 1970s by Architect Antonio Dumlao. The most recent restoration work done on the its ceiling paintings was in 2009-2010. There are indications of ground and paint layer losses at the joint (along the wood grain) between the wood planks. The backside of the ceiling's wood planks and framework have indications of dirt and dust.
The Camarin De La Virgen is generally in good state of conservation and maintenance. However, the ceiling paintings, as constituent part of the roof considered a vulnerable building component, remain at risk to natural hazards such as typhoon. Painted architectural surfaces such as the wooden plank ceiling to create architectural interior such as that of the Camarin De la Virgen demonstrate the ingenuity among other built traditions of our National Cultural Treasures. These are Philippine built traditions worthy of preservation.
Text and photos by Archt. Arnulfo Dado / NMP AABHD
© National Museum of the Philippines (2020)
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Rory Cashin
We don't really have to tell you how great TLC are, do we?
Actually, we don't have to tell you, we'll let the legendary Michael Keaton tell you instead.
Clip via Brandon Crothers
Anyways, TLC haven't had a new album out since their 2002 release 3D, which was released just a few months after the death of Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez.
'Way Back' comes equipped with a laid-back rap-verse by Snoop Dogg, and is the first single from TLC's upcoming, as-yet-untitled new album which was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, and will be released in full on 30 June.
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How to Stop Fare Evasion: Make NYC's Trains & Buses Free
Illustration by Rob La Quinta.
Here's how it can be done.
Indypendent Editors Dec 16, 2019
Imagine a transit system where there are no turnstiles, where the police presence is minimal because cops aren't lurking around to enforce fares. Picture a subway and bus network that is free, open and functional because those who profit most from it pay for it.
Lawmakers in Kansas City, Missouri took a step in just this direction earlier in December, passing a bill that directed the city's manager to set aside $8 million a year to cover the fare of $1.50 for every rider. It is expected to save frequent bus users in the city of 490,000 people about $1,000 a year.
Tweeting his admiration, New York City Councilmember Brad Lander (D-Park Slope) called the step "visionary," adding in parentheses that it "might take NYC a while, but this really is where we all need to aim."
The push for free mass transit is part of a large democratic socialist (or social-democratic) resurgence — Medicare for All, free public college, a Green New Deal — in which demands for free, universally available public goods are rising and finding receptive ears.
Here in New York, we already have an example of free public transit: the Staten Island Ferry. In 1997, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani lifted the ferry's already minimal 50-cent charge as a gesture of gratitude to the city's only majority-white borough, whose voters had helped nudge him to a narrow victory four years earlier.
Then there is the new network of ferries that our current mayor has championed. Those aren't free, but are heavily subsidized. While riders pay $2.75, the cost of a subway or bus trip, the Citizens Budget Commission found that the city is subsidizing the boats to the tune of $10.73 a ride. It also warned that subsidies could stretch as high as $24 per passenger along planned future routes.
One way of looking at the MTA's fare is as a regressive tax that hits those who can least afford it the hardest.
For an example of public dollars being put to a bit more practical use, there's the Fair Fares program. It provides half-price MetroCards to New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty line. Yet strict and arbitrary requirements during the initial rollout period, such as a mandate that beneficiaries must have a job, have meant that many riders have not been able to access the program. It's expanding this fall and winter to include public-housing residents and City University of New York students who are veterans.
Design by Mika Tarkela.
Some Councilmembers want it to go even further. In November, Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo (D-Crown Heights) and 24 colleagues sent a letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) calling on it to expand antipoverty programs like Fair Fares rather than hiring more police.
"These programs aim to alleviate the economic barriers present for many New Yorkers," they wrote. That, they said, will ultimately "deter fare evasion."
Meanwhile, Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) of Brooklyn has introduced a bill that would establish a $1 billion federal grant program that would provide free or low-cost transit rides for those living below 300 percent of the poverty line (about $37,000 a year for a single person), as well as those who are veterans, elderly or disabled.
But why not go all the way? Why not make the subway and buses free for all? What if there is no fare evasion to deter because there is no fare?
"We've had the subway for well over a century, and [New York] has grown up around it," says Daniel Pearlstein of the Riders Alliance, a straphanger advocacy group. "We're utterly dependent on it. That's clear. It's a bit like asking, 'What's the value of a water system? What's the value of a school system? What's the value of police and fire protection?' These are things we absolutely need, and we absolutely need to pay for them."
The question is who? And how much? Firefighters don't demand $2.75 before they extinguish burning homes. Teachers don't collect $2.75 from their pupils before they're admitted into their classrooms each morning. One way of looking at the MTA's fare is as a regressive tax that hits those who can least afford it the hardest. Rider swipes cover about 40 percent of the MTA's annual operating budget, which comes to nearly $18 billion in 2020. Taxes and subsidies make up the bulk of the rest, and could make up much more. One-sixth of the authority's operating budget goes to pay off past debts owed to bondholders. Instead of giving money to Wall Street, the MTA could take money from it.
All budgets are a statement of priorities. Here are several other ways the MTA could reorder its priorities:
Put a halt to boondoggles like the Second Avenue subway project, which cost a princely sum but are of little use to most commuters. Building the new Second Avenue line from 63rd Street to 96th Street cost more than $4 billion. A planned extension to 125th Street by 2029 is projected to cost $6 billion — and the digging hasn't even begun.
Expand dedicated bus lanes, for a fraction of the cost of building new underground lines. This will make it easier to connect people across the outer boroughs, where a lack of mass-transit options is a chronic problem.
Ensure that spending on vitally important capital programs such as updating the subway system's archaic signal system, doesn't spiral out of control.
Scrap Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to hire an additional 500 subway police officers at a cost of more than a billion dollars over the next 10 years, according to the conservative Empire Center. That's a lot of dough to spend on an affirmative action program for bullies.
The subway is New York's economic engine. The companies and individuals who benefit from it would grumble at paying more in taxes to support it, but without it their businesses can't function. A 2017 report by city Comptroller Scott Stringer — produced in a year when disinvestment from Albany had driven the subway to reach its lowest point of functionality since the early 1980s — estimated that mounting MTA delays were costing the city as much as $389 million in lost productivity annually.
Subways and buses deliver workers to their employers day in and day out. Employers could contribute more, through a payroll tax. An employee payroll tax where everyone is paying into the MTA, with high earners paying more and everyone having the freedom to take the subway, would also help cover the cost. Low-income workers would be putting in something, but their rides would be heavily subsidized by the city's well-heeled.
Then of course there's the real-estate industry. Wherever the subway goes, property values are higher.
'We need to make the challenges of our transit system visible enough that they get high enough on the agenda of the leaders in Albany.'
A state Senate bill that would have levied an annual tax on second homes worth more than $5 million in order to help fund the subway began to gather steam in Albany last March. It had been collecting dust since 2014, when Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) first introduced it. But the widely publicized $238 million purchase of a pied-à-terre Manhattan penthouse by hedge-fund magnate Ken Griffin lent the bill momentum. The home was officially valued at $9 million, so Griffin could expect to pay barely more than $500,000 a year in property taxes.
Amid budget negotiations, Gov. Cuomo, who had previously opposed new taxes to raise funds for the MTA (while also neglecting to fully fund it), said the pied-à-terre tax was the only new money he and other lawmakers had agreed upon. The revenue stream would have allowed the city to raise an additional $9 billion in bonds, he estimated. Comptroller Stringer predicted it would bring a minimum of $650 million a year in transit investment. Then the real-estate lobby stepped in. Lawmakers buckled. By the end of March the tax had been whittled down to a one-time surcharge on the purchase of multimillion-dollar second homes.
The industry had flexed its muscle, but later that spring, it was unable to stop the passage of sweeping housing-law reforms that expanded the state's rent regulations. Tenant activists repeatedly traveled to Albany by the busload to advocate for changes to the state's housing statutes that included measures to prevent landlords from converting affordable housing to market rate.
Gov. Cuomo appoints the majority of the MTA's board and dominates its affairs, to the detriment of straphangers. Breaking up the MTA and putting the city's subways and buses under local democratic control — with the necessary taxing authority also granted to the city — would be the fastest way to transform our mass transit system. But as that is not currently in the offing, the transit-justice movement can learn a lot from tenant advocates' success last spring, says Pearlstein.
"We need to make the challenges of our transit system visible enough that they get high enough on the agenda of the leaders in Albany that they make the crucial decisions about who pays and how much," he said, noting that transit activists had some success with this as they pushed for lawmakers to approve congestion-pricing legislation last year that is projected to direct an estimated $5 billion a year toward the MTA's capital budget once it is implemented in 2021.
"Nobody thought congestion pricing could pass a few years back," Pearlstein says. "But it passed in significant part because riders got hurt. People who didn't believe they represented subway riders found out they represented lots of subway riders and they needed it fixed."
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Jessica | Queens
"That's great if it could actually happen. I highly doubt it will though. It's a big business for the city. Why would they not try to capitalize on that? They should try to tax Wall Street for it, but I don't think that would happen."
Katarina | Bed-Stuy
"Free? That would be amazing but I would wonder where the money would come from. I'm all for taxing the rich to pay for public transport. It sounds like an interesting experiment. I don't know how it would go over but it would equalize the playing ground so all people can get from point A to point B."
Simon | Midwood-Flatbush
"I think a price cut of at least 30–40 percent is fair. A lot of stuff is broken, a lot of stuff is molding, there are rats everywhere. If they can get money from fares they should take it. Free? Nah, but price cut, definitely."
Walter | Richmond Hill
"That'd be great. A lot of communities cannot afford it. Service might drop off if everyone's riding for free, but it'd be worth it."
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Finery and Insignia of a Maya King of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
Laura Filloy Nadal, Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, Junior Fellow 2005–2006, Spring
The city of Palenque is located at the northern end of the highlands of the state of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico. Palenque reached its maximum splendor in the Late Classic (600–900 AD) when it became one of the Maya centers of greatest importance. The early accounts of the city speak mainly of wars, defeats, and dynastic turbulence that did not come to a halt until the reign of one of the most prominent kings of the Maya area: K´inich Janaab´ Pakal—also known as Pakal the Great or Pakal II (603–683 AD).
During the reign of Pakal II, the city of Palenque flourished and underwent significant modifications. This sovereign ordered the construction of a number of major structures, including the Temple of the Inscriptions, which served as his sepulcher and commemorative monument. Mexican archeologist Alberto Ruz excavated this mausoleum in 1952, and discovered the remains of the renowned king dressed with fine effects carved in jade.
The central goal of my doctoral research is an in-depth analysis of the garments, insignia, and symbols of power present in Pakal's funerary complex. At Dumbarton Oaks, I had the opportunity to consult the magnificent bibliographic collection on Mesoamerican archaeology that allowed me to work with abundant references that facilitated the comparison of objects, clothing, and symbols of power associated with Maya royalty at different Classic period centers, and those worn by Pakal II for his last rites.
Since the 1960s, an interesting debate has arisen over the existence of portraiture in Mesoamerican visual representation. One group of specialists has maintained that, from the Western perspective, the notion of portraits has been confused with naturalistic or conventional art characteristic of certain Mesoamerican cultures. On the other hand, another group of specialists suggests purely conventional art may coexist with the art of portraiture. The accessibility of major sources on the world's history of art at Dumbarton Oaks let me track the debate over the existence of portraiture in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and early Christian art. The main purpose was to find out whether or not the Palenque depictions are true portraits or if they are idealized, emblematic, or ethnic representations of the king and the royal family. My preliminary observations lead me to presume that at least during the reign of Pakal II, true portraits were produced in Palenque.
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Q: Disable Button when Edit Text Fields empty I have two text fields and a Button. I want to disable the Button unless both EditText-Fields are not empty. I tried many solutions here at stackoverflow, but they don't work. Here is my code:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class RegisterActivity extends Activity {

    private EditText editText1;
    private EditText editText2;

    //TextWatcher
    private TextWatcher textWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i2, int i3)
       {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i2, int i3) {
            checkFieldsForEmptyValues();
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
        }
    };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.register_activity);

        editText1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.reg_password);
        editText2 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.reg_password2);

        //set listeners
        editText1.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);
        editText1.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);

        // run once to disable if empty
        checkFieldsForEmptyValues();

        TextView loginScreen = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.link_to_login);
        loginScreen.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                startActivity (new Intent(getApplicationContext(), DialogActivity.class));
                finish();
            }
        });

    }

    private  void checkFieldsForEmptyValues(){
        Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnRegister);

        String s1 = editText1.getText().toString();
        String s2 = editText2.getText().toString();

        if(s1.equals("") && s2.equals(""))
        {
            b.setEnabled(false);
        }

        else if(!s1.equals("")&&s2.equals("")){
            b.setEnabled(false);
        }

        else if(!s2.equals("")&&s1.equals(""))
        {
            b.setEnabled(false);
        }

        else
        {
            b.setEnabled(true);
        }
    }
}

If I start the activity, it is disabled. But If I type something, it sometimes enables and sometimes doesn't.. I just want to enable the button if both Edit-Text Fields are not empty.

A: I know this is old, but keep in mind that by simply using .isEmpty() will allow you to only add a space and the button will enable itself.
Use s1.trim().isEmpty || s2.trim().isEmpty() instead.
Or, you can do:
String s1 = editText1.getText().toString().trim()
String s2 = editText2.getText().toString().trim()
then just check for .isEmpty().
I don't know, it's however you'd want to do it, and this answer is most likely irrelevant anyway but I'd thought I'd just point that out.

A: You method checkFieldsForEmptyValues is too complicated for what your doing, try just by doing :
 private  void checkFieldsForEmptyValues(){
        Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnRegister);

        String s1 = editText1.getText().toString();
        String s2 = editText2.getText().toString();

        if (s1.length() > 0 && s2.length() > 0) {
            b.setEnabled(true);
        } else {
            b.setEnabled(false);
        }

}

A: A different way to do this would be
b.setEnabled(!s1.trim().isEmpty() && !s2.trim().isEmpty());

A: You may resolve this problem a much shorter:
@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    TextWatcher tw = new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {}

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
           updateSignInButtonState();
        }
    };

    editLogin.addTextChangedListener(tw);
    editPassword.addTextChangedListener(tw);

}
private void updateSignInButtonState() {
    buttonSignIn.setEnabled(editLogin.getText().length() > 0 &&
                            editPassword.getText().length() > 0);
}

A: Your problem is here:
//set listeners
        editText1.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);
        editText1.addTextChangedListener(textWatcher);

You are not setting the textWatcher to editText2, so you are always checking the condition if you write inside editText1

A: Instead of this
 if(s1.equals("") && s2.equals(""))
    {
        b.setEnabled(false);
    }

try this
 if(s1.isEmpty() || s2.isEmpty())
    {
        b.setEnabled(false);
    }

change all the validating condition from && this to ||

A: My way was:

*

*button setEnabled(false)

*I used TextWatcher to listen for text change and update status of
button in afterTextChanged function
Here is my code:
TextWatcher tw = new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
        updateSignInButtonState();
    }
};

public void updateSignInButtonState() {
    btnSubmit.setEnabled(edUsername.getText().length() > 0 &&
            edPassword.getText().length() > 0);
}

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Shōkadō Shōjō, original name Nakanuma Shikibu (born 1584, Yamato Province, Japan—died Nov. 3, 1639, Japan), Japanese calligrapher and painter, one of the "three brushes" of the Kan-ei era.
He was a priest and respected theologian of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, who declined high office and retired to the Takinomoto-bō, a small temple on the slope of Otoko-yama (Mt. Otoko) south of Kyōto, to devote himself to calligraphy, painting, poetry, and the tea ceremony. In 1637 he moved to another small mountain retreat, the Shōkadō (Pine Flower Temple), whence his name and the name of his school of followers, the Shōkadō school. His major achievement was to revivify calligraphy by reviving the traditional sō ("grass") writing style—a rapid, cursive script that originated in China and was practiced by a 9th-century Japanese Shingon saint Kōbō Daishi. Using the sō script, Shōkadō inscribed 16 love poems on a six-panelled folding screen covered with gold leaf (Kimiko and John Powers Collection, U.S.). As a painter, he worked in both the Yamato-e (Japanese painting) style and in monochromatic ink after the manner of the 13th-century Chinese monk-artists Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang and Yin-t'o-lo.


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Q: PHP - Not showing all rows from database I have the following code which is supposed to get several records from the database. When the query is ran in phpmyadmin it displays the rows fine, but on the page it only displays the first item
I've echo'd the $cardList array and its shows the correct ids
$cards = array($get['card1'], $get['card2'], $get['card3'], $get['card4'], $get['card5'], $get['card6'], $get['card7'], $get['card8'], $get['card9'], $get['card10']);

foreach($cards as $card) {
    if($card != "0")
        $cardList[] = $card;
}

$sql = "SELECT mc.id, d.deckName, c.cardNumber
    FROM me_member_cards AS mc
    LEFT JOIN me_cards AS c ON c.id = mc.cardID
    LEFT JOIN me_decks AS d ON d.deckName = c.deckName
    WHERE mc.id in (:cardsList)";

$q = $pdo->prepare($sql);
$q->bindValue(':cardsList', implode(',' , $cardList));
$q->execute();
if($q->errorCode() != 0) {
     $errors = $q->errorInfo();
         echo($errors[2]);
}
foreach ($q->fetchAll() as $row) {
    echo $row['id'] . " - " . $row['deckName'] . " " . $row['cardNumber'] . "<br/>";
}

echoing the query gives
SELECT mc.id, d.deckName, c.cardNumber FROM me_member_cards AS mc LEFT JOIN me_cards AS c ON c.id = mc.cardID LEFT JOIN me_decks AS d ON d.deckName = c.deckName WHERE mc.id in (29,64,53,13,38,13,8)

A: Try something like this:
$cards = array($get['card1'], $get['card2'], $get['card3'], $get['card4'], $get['card5'], $get['card6'], $get['card7'], $get['card8'], $get['card9'], $get['card10']);

$cardList = $placeholderList = [];
foreach ($cards as $key => $card) {
    if ($card != "0") {
        $cardList[':mc_id' . $key] = $card;
    }
}

$sql = "SELECT mc.id, d.deckName, c.cardNumber
    FROM me_member_cards AS mc
    LEFT JOIN me_cards AS c ON c.id = mc.cardID
    LEFT JOIN me_decks AS d ON d.deckName = c.deckName
    WHERE mc.id in (" . implode(',', array_keys($cardList)) . ")";

$q = $pdo->prepare($sql);

array_walk($cardList, function ($value, $placeholder) use ($q) {
    $q->bindValue($placeholder, $value, \PDO::PARAM_INT);
});

// ...


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This sad, haunting story from 2008 never stops being fascinating. A set of twins were both gripped by otherwise-unexplained bursts of dangerously erratic behavior after being questioned roadside by the police, and it was caught on camera by a documentary videographer.
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There's a whole 50-minute documentary about the story of these women called "Madness in the Fast Lane." You can watch it on YouTube.


When someone is unhappy with a particular part of their body or wants to make improvements to a part of their body, one of the options they can consider is cosmetic surgery. However, what if you want to make aesthetic changes to your teeth as opposed to your body? One of the options available is cosmetic dentistry, which is an area of dentistry that covers a range of procedures.
There are many different ways in which you may want to improve your teeth in terms of appearance, and in order to cater for this there are also many procedures that you can select from to achieve the results you are looking for. When you choose this type of treatment you can improve the look of your teeth as well as boosting your confidence levels.
With the help of cosmetic dentistry, you can look forward to improving the appearance of your teeth in a range of ways, which in turn can improve your smile and your confidence levels. Remember, your teeth are on show a lot of the time, so it makes sense to have them looking as good as possible for as long as you can.
It is important to find a good, reputable dentist or dental clinic that offers access to a range of procedures if you want to make the most of cosmetic dentistry. By finding and experienced dental expert for your cosmetic dental procedures, you can look forward to great results and the perfect finish for your teeth.
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Jews had retreated. It seems that Baal Tzefon is holding them captive.
meaning Pharaoh and all his cohorts. Hashem hadn't finished with him yet.
Pharaoh fell for the bait -hook, line, and sinker!
chest. So the police begin to investigate and try to find out who shot him.
he'd been shot. Hopefully no sensible judge will ever accept such a story.
It's totally impossible. A man in a movie can't kill.
It's totally impossible. A man in a movie can't kill!
saw is totally meaningless and completely misleading. It just can't be.
to him. It's nothing but an illusion.
really exist. It's nothing more than a movie. It looks perfectly real.
who's really making the things disappear.
duplicate of yourself, down to the very last detail. It's you all right.
it? Certainly not. But why? Simply because it's absolutely impossible.


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Gun rights advocates holding rally and march Saturday in Downtown
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 7/2/2020, 6 p.m.
Thousands of people are expected to descend on Richmond this Saturday for a protest at the State Capitol against perceived injustice— new gun control laws that went into effect Wednesday, July 1.
The Open Carry 100K March, organized by a group called Liberty in Virginia, wants to showcase their disdain for the laws that include restoring handgun purchases limits to one a month and a requirement that any seller of a firearm must perform a background check on the buyer before completing the sale.
"This rally on July Fourth is to show that gun owners will not be trampled on! We are citizens who demand our 2nd Amendment rights be protected by the very people who swore an oath to protect us. Any and all gun laws are an infringement and are unconstitutional!" the group stated in a manifesto posted on Facebook.
The rally, to start at 8 a.m. and last into the afternoon, is to feature speeches from GOP state Sen. Amanda Chase of Chesterfield, who is running for governor, and others.
One group, The Right to Bear Arms in Virginia, plans to gather at 10 a.m. in the 1500 block of East Cary Street for a short march to Capitol Square during which they plan to distribute flyers and other literature on the cause.
Gun rights groups drew 15,000 people to the State Capitol in January in a fruitless bid to halt the laws from passage by the General Assembly. Gun rights activists, including the Virginia Citizens Defense League, have taken the battle to court in an effort to overturn the laws as violations of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
In a first test, a Goochland County judge refused on June 25 to issue a temporary injunction to halt the one-handgun-a-month law from going into effect on July 1. Virginia previously had the sales restriction that was initiated in 1990 by then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. However, Republicans lifted the purchase restrictions in 2012 before Democrats, who won control of the General Assembly in last November's elections, reinstated it.
Gun rights groups also have filed a separate case in Lynchburg Circuit Court challenging the new law requiring background checks for all gun sales, including private ones and ones that take place at gun shows. That law closes a loophole that allowed buyers and sellers to bypass documentation of sales and made it easier for those with criminal records or those adjudged mentally ill to obtain weapons under the radar.


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Russia claims deadly attack, but Kyiv denies anyone killed
By HANNA ARHIROVA The Associated Press
Nina Gonchar, 93, and her son Mykola Gonchar, 58, sit inside their house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Evgeniy Maloletka]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military claimed Sunday to have carried out deadly missile strikes on barracks used by Ukrainian troops in retaliation for the deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers in a rocket attack a week ago. Ukrainian officials denied there were any casualties.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles hit two temporary bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, killing 600 of them. Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the strikes were retaliation for Ukraine's attack in Makiivka, in which at least 89 Russian soldiers died.
Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine's forces in the east, told The Associated Press that Russian strikes on Kramatorsk damaged only civilian infrastructure, adding: "The armed forces of Ukraine weren't affected."
The Donetsk regional administration said seven Russian missiles hit Kramatorsk and two more hit Kostyantynivka, without causing any casualties. It said an educational institution, an industrial facility and garages were damaged in Kramatorsk, and an industrial zone was hit in Kostyantynivka.
Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko said two school buildings and eight apartment houses were hit overnight. Photos he posted showed no indication that it had been an attack on the scale claimed by the Russians or that anyone had been in the buildings when they were struck.
A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Evgeniy Maloletka
Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People kneel as the Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade Oleh Yurchenko killed in a battlefield with Russian forces in the Donetsk region during a commemoration ceremony in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Efrem Lukatsky
"The world saw again these days that Russia lies even when it draws attention to the situation at the front with its own statements," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
"Russian shelling of Kherson with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas. The strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities of the Donbas — aimed right at civilian sites and right when Moscow was reporting the supposed 'silence' of its army."
Russia had declared a 36-hour cease-fire timed to coincide with Orthodox Christmas celebrations on Saturday. Ukraine denounced the pause as a ploy.
Russia said the attack on Kramatorsk was in retaliation for the Ukrainian rockets that destroyed a facility in Makiivka, also in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian soldiers were gathered in the early hours of Jan. 1. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin's forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.
Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian military claimed to have hit a residential hall of a medical university in Rubizhne, a town in the Russian-occupied eastern Luhansk region, killing 14 Russian soldiers housed there. The number of wounded was unknown, it said.
Elsewhere in the east, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said one person was killed in strikes on Bakhmut, and eight others were wounded. The battles for Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar remained among the bloodiest on the front, Zelenskyy said.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, the town of Merefa was hit during the night, killing one person, and two other settlements in the region were shelled, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners Sunday, swapping 50 on each side, according to Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, and Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president's office.
Follow AP's coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine


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Coastal Bangladesh turns too salty for salt-tolerant rice
Agro, Economy
As the sea keeps rising due to climate change and affecting coastal Bangladesh, turning the soil and groundwater saline, scientists have been breeding salt tolerant varieties of rice, the main crop in the region. But the sea keeps coming in and turning everything more and more saline, well beyond the point that salt tolerant rice varieties can tolerate.
The latest salt tolerant rice variety – that the scientists released among Bangladeshi farmers as recently as November 20 – can tolerate a salinity of up to 8 deci Siemens per metre (dS/m, equivalent to 512 parts per million).
But salinity is now well above that level in more than half the arable lands in 19 affected coastal districts of Bangladesh.
Researchers say none of the existing varieties of salt-tolerant rice can survive and grow at the level of salinity that has affected both the soil and the groundwater in some of the coastal districts.
According to a study conducted by the Bangladesh Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI), out of 8.1 million hectares of arable land in Bangladesh, 1.02 million hectares in 19 coastal districts are affected by salinity.
The study also shows that salinity in more than half the arable land in five coastal districts has gone well past the 8 dS/m level. It says out of the 560,000 hectares in five coastal districts – Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Patuakhali and Barguna – the salinity level now ranges between 8.1 and 16 dS/m. Traditional varieties of most crops can withstand salinity of up to 0.7dS/m only.
"The latest variety of rice we have released can tolerate up to 8 dS/m salinity. It will be damaged if the salinity increases even for a few days," Jiban Krishna Biswas, director general of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), told thethirdpole.net.
He did hold out the hope that more salt tolerant varieties could be bred in the future. BRRI scientists have already released more and more salt-tolerant rice varieties eight times. But there is a limit to this. Researchers say the tolerance cannot go beyond 12dS/m, a level now surpassed in some areas of coastal Bangladesh.
The SRDI study found that in the last few years, an average of 6,200 hectares of fresh farmland is being affected by salinity every year. In 1973, 833,000 hectares of land in 19 coastal districts were salinity-affected. Now, the figure stands at 1.02 million hectares.
In 12 salinity-affected areas, only a quarter of arable land remains under cultivation – that too in a limited way.
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Witch woman
Elizabeth Evelyn Allen
by Elizabeth Evelyn Allen
Published 1987 by Warner Books, Inc. in New York, N.Y .
Statement Elizabeth Evelyn Allen
Contributions Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
LC Classifications CPB Box no. 878 vol. 12
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Set in Cornwall and the American Colonies, Witch Woman chronicles the te /5. The Witch in Every Woman is a great introductory book for any woman who, like me, is claiming their sovereignty. I particularly enjoyed the little spells and rituals throughout the book.
It had a nice flow, from start to finish, with legends entangled in and lessons on how to honour your process. It was a reassuring and encouraging read.4/5.
A witch is a woman in possession of power. To some, the witch is a figure to fear; to others, she's one of empowerment. She is the healer, the medicine woman, the bruja, the Mother, the crafty 's a reason there are so many books about witches, many more.
Teeny-Tiny And The Witch-Woman is a story written by Barbara K. Walker and illustrated by Michael Foreman based on an old Turkish folk tale [citation needed].The story was first published in by Pantheon Books and an animated short based on the story was.
Songs for the Witch Woman proves more than just a simple history of another eccentric LA couple, however. Within this publication lies another book, a.
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The most common form of male witch mentioned in the book is the ge: Latin. A WITCH IS A WOMAN IN HER POWER. She's wise, a healer, someone who is aligned with the cycles of mumma nature and the phases of the moon.
Yet for so long, the word 'witch' has had negative connotations being used as an insult, a slur and to perpetuate fear. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind. In The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) is torn between the witch and the mortal world, as certain expectations have been placed on her teen shoulders.
Dating a human is not the done thing, but this is and Sabrina wants to have a choice in the way she lives her life. First love is intoxicating, particularly if there is also a forbidden factor.
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The witch is absent from the version of that event recounted in the deuterocanonical Book of Nationality: Endor (Galilee), Canaanite city. Witch parties, witch protests and a bevy of new books: We have reached peak witch.
Fifty-one years ago, a group of protesters calling themselves W.I.T.C.H. staged a Halloween "hex" on Wall. Witch Woman has an entry in Mystic Arcana: The Book of Marvel Magic. Her son's name was revealed in her newer entry in OHotMU A-Z HC# Clarifications: Linda Littletrees, the Witch Woman, has no KNOWN connection to: Louhi of the Hyborian era, the Witch Woman of Hyperborea, @ King Conan#1; The Witch Woman used by Centurious (see comments.
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A witch is a wise woman, a healer. Yet for so long the word witch has had negative connotations. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why identifying as a healer in past centuries led women to be burned at the stake, and why the witch is reawakening in women across the world today/5().
Witch Woman is a Marvel comics character and she was created by Gary Friedrich and Tom Sutton. Powers and Abilities Witch Woman could generate, control, and manipulate hell fire.The first book in Witch World series is a wonderful read.
Andre Norton her real name being Alice is often referred to as the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy and was the first woman to win a Gandalf Grand Master Award awarded to her by the World Science Fiction Society.
Question: "Did the witch of Endor really summon Samuel from the dead (1 Samuel )?" Answer: The story of the witch of Endor summoning Samuel is recorded in 1 Samuelthe only biblical account of someone being visited by someone who was deceased. Saul, having deprived himself of every legitimate means of spiritual input as a result of his own disobedience and rebellion.
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