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Paraguay - Soy expansion nightmare (30/8/2006)
1.The Development Model for Soy in Paraguay - Irresponsible, Unsustainable and Anti-Democratic
2.Paraguay: Platform for Hemispheric Hegemony
3.Peasant Family in Paraguay Condemned by Agrotoxins
4.Paraguay: Soy Expansion Triggers Repression, Eviction of Peasants
FROM ITEM 3: Apparently soy is too big a business in Paraguay for the government to attack it. The price tag of 6% of Paraguay's GDP seems to make the government blind to the fact that 20 litres of glyphosate is being used for every hectare of transgenic soy.
Silvino Talavera, then 11 years old, was fumigated with a cocktail of agrotoxins which are being used to crop Roundup Ready soybeans. The children of Petrona; Silvino, Sofia (then 13 years) and Patricia (2 years), had to be hospitalised the following days due to extreme exposure to the agrotoxins. When their condition stabilised they were able to return home, where they were then exposed to yet another fumigation from another neighbouring soy farmer. Silvino died a few days after. Traces of fenol, carbamato and glyphosate were found in his sister's blood.
FROM ITEM 2: Paraguayan sociologist Tomas Palau... considers the two effects of the soy explosion: environmental, worsening the disappearance of the last pockets of forest in the eastern region and the indiscriminate use of herbicide and pesticide; and social, that "had dramatic results in a country that was undergoing an accelerated process of impoverishment and now must attend to a massive expulsion of farming families from their lands."
It is estimated that 25% of rural Paraguayans live in absolute poverty. The country suffered, according to Palau, a triple loss of sovereignty. "It depends on the exports of a single product (soy) whose seeds will be provided by a single business (Monsanto);" it loses territorial sovereignty, seeing that large pieces of land are acquired by foreigners, especially Brazilians, the so-called "brasiguayos;" and also a loss of food sovereignty, as the monoculture substitutes the diversity of subsistence crops grown by farming families.
FROM ITEM 4: According to studies of Serpaj the worst cases of repression against farmers have taken place in areas with the highest concentration of US troops... National sovereignty, the welfare and sustainability of its population don't seem to have much value for this government as long as the agribusiness keeps filling its pocket. The next cropping season for (mainly transgenic) soy starts in September. Is this why the level of evictions is accelerating?
"All monocultures are damaging to the ecosystems they supplant; they cause poverty, unemployment and the eviction and exodus of communities in rural areas. They destroy biological and agricultural diversity, poison water sources and the soil and undermine the food security and sovereignty of the people and their countries." Declaration "The Irresponsible, Unsustainable and Antidemocratic Development Model in present day Paraguay " August 2006, Asuncion, Paraguay
"The Irresponsible, Unsustainable and Antidemocratic Development Model in present day Paraguay " is the title of the Declaration launched by Paraguayan and international organisations with various backgrounds, to express their opposition to large scale soy production, considering its close connection to an agroindustrial model which is antidemocratic, excluding, irresponsible and which concentrates all the benefits in the hands of a few.
The document is signed by MCNOC (National Coordination of Peasant Organisations), FNC (National Peasant Federation), ONAC (National Peasant Organisation), CNOCIP (National Center of Indigenous and Popular Peasant Organisations), CONAMURI (National Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women), the organisations BASE IS, SOBREVIVENCIA - Friends of the Earth Paraguay, (all of which are Paraguayan organisations); and the Global Forest Coalition and ASEED Europe,Social Equity in Environmental Decisions (UK) which continues to be an open list to be signed by others. This is an absolute rejection by these organisations of the raw material export model of soy monocultures, based on the use of massive amounts of pesticides and toxic chemicals and the dangerous introduction of genetically modified organisms. They also reject the hosting of the Second Round Table on 'Responsible' Soy, in Asuncion, Paraguay, an initiative stimulated by multinational corporations and conservationist foundations.
"Who will take responsibility for the environmental pollution caused by approximately 20 million liters of chemicals dumped on Paraguay this year?, The destruction of streams, rivers, springs and wetlands? The eviction of almost a hundred thousand small farmers from their homes and fields? The assassination of more than one hundred peasant leaders? The forced relocation and ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples and communities, the charges pressed against more than 2,000 small farmers for their legitimate resistance to this predatory system?", question the signing organisations, to come to the conclusion that "Large scale soy monocultures are NOT possible without this litany of adverse impacts".
Javiera Rulli – GRR, Grupo Reflexion Rural Argentina
Tel. (0046) 8 42021226
Nina Holland
Cel. (0031) 6 30285042
In Paraguay:
[Spanish]
Julia Franco – CONAMURI, National Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women Tel. (595 21) 490 203 Mob. (595 971) 322 100 [email protected]
Beatriz Silvero - SOBREVIVENCIA, Friends of the Earth Paraguay Tel. (595 21) 480 182 Mob. (595 981) 921 850 [email protected]
Mirna Mochet – ONAC, National Peasant Organisation
Mob. (595 981) 881 442
Marcial Gomez – FNC, National Peasant Federation
Tel. (595 21) 512 384
Tomas Palau - BASE IS, Social Investigations
[English-Dutch]
An Maeyens - A SEED Europa, Action for Solidarity, Environment, Equality and Diversity
[Spanish-English]
Miguel Lovera – GFC, Global Forest Coalition
Cel. (595 971) 201 957
Written by Raul Zibechi, IRC Americas Program
Source: IRC Americas Program, 29 August 2006
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/408/1/ [EXCERPTS ONLY]
In Paraguay four powerful groups co-exist: transnational capital interests, among whom are included the soy farmers (closely linked to the U.S. corporations Cargill and Monsanto); the latifundistas or large estate owners; drug lords, who control extensive terrain where they grow marijuana and ingredients for cocaine; and the pseudo-businessmen (in Spanish, called empresaurios) that form part of or benefit the government. 8 There is no real business community, because each time that there was an industrialization process, as in the majority of South American countries, the empresaurios benefit from biased public works elicitations, contraband, and the misuse of public funds. 9
The militarization and para-militarization of the Paraguayan countryside is related to the rise of the peasant farmers' movement and the expansion of soy cultivation, which is not grown on the lands of the large landowners, but of the small farmer. Transgenic soy began expanding in the 1999-2000 agricultural season. It is the second wave of intensive agriculture; the first was in the 70s, with the entrance of Brazilian farmers that expanded the traditional soy-farming border from the southern Brazilian states. Paraguayan sociologist Tomas Palau assures that "without the availability of regulated lands, the soy borders will expand over peasant lands, converted pastures, and the rest of the country." 10 The progression of cultivated land is surprising. In 1995, 800,000 hectares of soy were cultivated; in 2003 it reached 2 million. In the same production period the yield went from 2.3 million tons to 4.5 million tons. In the same decade the extension of the cotton crops - those that sustain the small- and medium-size farmers - fell 20%, and the volume of production was cut in half.
Palau considers the two effects of the soy explosion: environmental, worsening the disappearance of the last pockets of forest in the eastern region and the indiscriminate use of herbicide and pesticide; and social, that "had dramatic results in a country that was undergoing an accelerated process of impoverishment and now must attend to a massive expulsion of farming families from their lands." It is estimated that 25% of rural Paraguayans live in absolute poverty. The country suffered, according to Palau, a triple loss of sovereignty. "It depends on the exports of a single product (soy) whose seeds will be provided by a single business (Monsanto);" it loses territorial sovereignty, seeing that large pieces of land are acquired by foreigners, especially Brazilians, the so-called "brasiguayos;" and also a loss of food sovereignty, as the monoculture substitutes the diversity of subsistence crops grown by farming families.
Written by BASE-IS, Paraguay and GRR Argentina
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/412/1/
The tragedy faced by Petrona Villasboa's peasant family doesn't seem to come to an end. The family has been affected by agrotoxic contamination for more than 3 years. This time Petrona's 3 month-old grandchild is suffering from hidrocefalia. Even after 3 years of judicial battle the family is still waiting for the conviction of those responsible for the poisoning of Petrona's son.
In 2003, in the department of Itapua, Paraguay, Silvino Talavera, then 11 years old, was fumigated with a cocktail of agrotoxins which are being used to crop Roundup Ready soybeans. The children of Petrona; Silvino, Sofia (then 13 years) and Patricia (2 years), had to be hospitalised the following days due to extreme exposure to the agrotoxins. When their condition stabilised they were able to return home, where they were then exposed to yet another fumigation from another neighbouring soy farmer. Silvino died a few days after. Traces of fenol, carbamato and glyphosate were found in his sister's blood. With the support of CONAMURI, a Paraguayan organisation of peasant and indigenous women, Petrona started a court case in 2003 to try to get justice for the murder of her son and the poisoning of her entire family.
But the Talavera Villasboa family is not only suffering from toxic exposure. During the past 3 years they have been facing threats and violence that tried to silence them. Their animals have been killed and the soy producers planted a strip of eucalyptus bordering the family's land, drying it up. In May, Petrona's brother, Serapio Villasboa, was brutally murdered, stabbed eleven times. Serapio was a member of the national peasant movement, and it is suspected that his murder was one of many committed by the Civil Guards, a repressive force under the conduct of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry is linked to the big landowners and large scale soy producers, especially focusing to prosecute peasant leaders. In the case of Silvino Talavera Villasboa, the public prosecutor refused to continue with the case, stating that the family only wants to get compensation payments out of the murder of one of their family members1.
Vidal, son of Sofia Talavera Vilasboa
Sofia, the oldest sister of Silvino, cooked the food Silvino was carrying on the day he got fumigated. Following that day her health started to deteriorate. In 2005 she suffered from chronical head- and stomach aches, nausea and loss of sight for 3 months. The 17 year-old Sofia gave birth last April to a child that looked healthy at birth, until his head volume began to increase after two months. The diagnose was HYDROCEFALI, a disease which causes the accumulation of excessive cefaloraquìdeo liquid in the brain. For the moment the child is hospitalized in the Children´s Hospital of Asunción (Paraguay' s capital) waiting for an operation to insert a valve to remove the liquid. This disease, genetic or acquired, is considered a malformation of the central nervous system. A genetic predisposition to agrotoxins might be triggered during fetus development by environmental factors like Sofia's exposure to agrotoxins.
In Mexico, health researchers the department of Nayarit discovered a causal relationship between the exposure to pesticides and genetic malformations, especially amongst women who are being exposed to agrotoxins during the first 3 months of pregnancy. The study shows that the risk on these malformations amongst women being exposed to agrochemical products is three times higher than in an non-exposed population; including the ones who live in fumigated villages, those who live close to fields where agrotoxins are used, those who have a partner working with agrochemicals and those who wash contaminated clothes2.
In Misiones, Argentina, 5 out of every 1000 children is born with meliomeningocele, a malformation of the central nervous system related to hydrocephali. The cases are more frequent in paper and tabaco producing zones, where they use agrotoxins. This problem is being transferred to the whole environment, resulting in soil degradation, air contamination and poisoning of water sources. On top of this, it is estimated that in Misiones close to 13% of the population has some form of disability, being the double of the national average3.
In Chile, this problem has sprung up in he last 15 to 20 years in the industrial forest and fruit regions, leading to one of the highest rates of genetic malformations in Latin America. The Sixth Region of Chile has seen the rapid development of industrialised agriculture, with the massive use of pesticides. Preliminary work conducted in the region suggests an association between the exposure and an increase of the prevalence of genetic malformations at birth. In Rancuaga 4.1% of the incidents of genetic malformations were registered amongst newborns, 27,65% had an agricultural background linked to the use of pesticides and 19,11% of the cases show an incidence of exposure caused by the location of the house4.
Dr. Martin of the University of Passo Fundo in Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, realised a study on the cases of newborns whose mothers have been exposed directly to agrotoxins; finding that 38% of the malformations were neurological, of which the biggest amount corresponds to hydrocephali (44%) amongst other types like mielomenigecele, microcefalia, spina bifida and anencefalia. Soy monocultures stands out for the high incidence of malformations and neurological problems, 78% of the cases correspond to this type of monoculture while 22% is attributed to the cultivation of wheat5.
The studies presented above are just a small fraction of all the studies that show the devastating impact of agrotoxins on health. In the hospitals of Asunción, cases of children with malformation, tumours, leukemia and respiratory problems are increasing. In the Children´s Hospital, next to he grandchild of Petrona, lies another baby with hydrocephali. The child is in a very critical state after 4 operations that didn't improve its condition. The baby comes from the area around Capiata where in 2004, agrotoxins were spilled by a passing truck. A truck that was illegally transporting more than 20 thousand litres of agrotoxins (Metadof, Duron, Novafate and Novaquat) turned over and caused a spill that reached a stream and the Ypacarai lake. Thirty people were hospitalized after the accident. Six other babies were born with anencefalia (no brain) during the first months of 2006 in the community of Pirapo'i in Itapúa 100 km from Encarnación. 57 families live in this community, of which 17 live surrounded by soy, wheat and sunflower monocultures. Three of the cases of anencefalia were from these 17 families. Health personnel from this area told the press that the majority of the cases are diarrhoea, vomiting, and skin problems such as allergies, stains and boils. The Minister of Health publically denied that the cases could be attributed to agricultural fumigation, and presented the press a report by Dr. Cardozo, the person responsible for running blood tests on the affected population. But this report has never been signed by Dr. Cardozo. Meanwhile, Dr. Carrillo, from the Instituto Privado del Niño, irresponsibly suggested that what they were seeing was a generalized case of folic acid deficiency. Encarnación is commonly described as the illegal cementary for agrotoxins in Paraguay. Two illegal dumps were discovered there in February 2005. The first one included 80 drums of highly toxic insecticide, and the second one was full of empty herbicide and fungicide containers 20 kilometres from the capital6.
It looks as though, on top of the poverty caused by soy expansion in Paraguayan peasant communities, a wave of diseases is also threatening to kill them. The government keeps their eyes closed to this genocide, denying the connection between these incidents and the use of agrotoxins. Apparently soy is too big a business in Paraguay for the government to attack it. The price tag of 6% of Paraguay's GDP seems to make the government blind to the fact that 20 litres of glyphosate is being used for every hectare of transgenic soy. And glyphosate is used with even stronger agrochemicals like endosulfan, paraquat and even DDT. The more the private sector of agribusiness gains, the less budget there is for health. Paraguay is investing in the Hidrovia, a large scale infrastructure project, to facilitate the export of soy. The country is indebted and the only proposed solution to tackle the country's poverty is the World Bank's program of Swapt Debt for Health and Nature, which distributes USAID money through local NGOs. It seems that incapacity, lack of vision and impunity are the dominating characteristics of this government, which is willing to sacrifice its people to maintain the agro-export model.
The nephew of Silvino Talavera, like many newborns in Paraguay, is born with a malformation which will affect the rest of his life. His entire family has to face chronic health problems caused by agrotoxins like stomach aches, allergies, respiratory difficulty and hormonal deregulations. The soy producers responsible for the murder of the child, Herman Schelender and Alfredo Laustenlager, are still free after 3 years of juridical struggle. The case is struck in the Paraguayan Supreme Court, right where the soy lobby wants it. Unperturbed, they keep on producing transgenic soy, fumigating peasant communities and causing disease and the devastation of future generations.
Written by An Maeyens, A SEED Europe
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 [EXCERPT ONLY]
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/411/1/
...current president Nicanor Duarte Frutos has stated publicly that 'the capitalist soy producers' are confiding in a production project that is "selfish and excluding, and are not even capable of giving 2 hectares of land to the farmers to sow it", assuring that "Latin America doesn't need this style of economic model."8 Meanwhile he has permitted numerous operations of police and militaries repressing the demonstrations and peasant communities. Under the government of Nicanor Duarte Frutos more than 2000 peasant leaders got charged, hundreds of families mutilated and more that 15 peasant leaders were murdered9. The presence of North American troops in Paraguay has aggravated the criminalization of peasant organizations. According to studies of Serpaj the worst cases of repression against farmers have taken place in areas with the highest concentration of US troops: "The US military is advising the Paraguayan police and military about how to deal with these farmer groups…they are teaching theory as well as technical skills to Paraguayan police and military…the US troops form part of a security plan to repress the social movement in Paraguay"10. National sovereignty, the welfare and sustainability of its population don't seem to have much value for this government as long as the agribusiness keeps filling its pocket. The next cropping season for (mainly transgenic) soy starts in September. Is this why the level of evictions is accelerating?
The events of the last weeks show that repression against the peasant movements is intensifying.


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In a series of significant changes at Condé Nast, Dame Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue, has also been named "Global Content Advisor" for the company's international brands.
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May 9, 2016 by	Adams
The Wisconsin Center for Investigate Journalism has an ongoing series about the condition of Wisconsin's water supply, with three main topics, one of which is entitled, Failure at the Faucet. I've mentioned the full series before. See, Water Watch Wisconsin. Reading that series – the work of many journalists over many months, is astounding. One would think
The Context of It All
This series began over a year ago, after some officials first proposed a digester energy project over two and a half years ago. It's worth a quick summary of where that project now stands, and the context of writing about the project. I'd say that there have been, so far, three phases to this proposal.
April 24, 2016 by	Adams
Waukesha's Water
Waukesha is a large suburban city, of about seventy-thousand, in a prosperous suburban county, of about four-hundred thousand. By ordinary estimation, the residents of the city and county should have no difficulties with basic utilities and infrastructure. And yet, Waukesha has a water supply problem: Waukesha does not have an adequate supply of water that
The State of Phosphorus Now
Phosphorus may be used as a fertilizer, but that use comes at a price. A community, especially a farming community, that uses phosphorus for fertilizer faces the problem of what to do with that element when large quantities spread through the environment. Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel, in a story from 4.16.16, explains the concern
The Water Problems in Wisconsin
Post 57 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town's digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities' waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. I promised to begin reviewing by the particulars of a 12.15.15 discussion of waste importation. I'll hold off to


The tenth annual Executive Seminars in Analytical Chemistry - ESAC 2010 - attracted more than 240 researchers, chemists, suppliers and industry experts to Symbion on April 15. ESAC 2010 was sponsored by AmCham Denmark's Analytical Instruments Committee and is the result of an ongoing collaboration between 7 independent companies: Agilent Technologies, AB Sciex, Bruker Daltonics, Dionex, Perkin Elmer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Waters. The companies' efforts culminate each year in the conference, which enables scientific researchers to network, share their experiences, and to learn more about the latest methods and results in their specific field of research.
This year's event featured the latest developments within Life Science/Biotech, Pharmaceutical, and Food/Environmental applications, and again this year a session which focused on Clinical/Forensic applications.
The seminars were also enhanced by keynote speakers involved in leading-edge, innovative research including Flemming Besenbacher of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNano), Aarhus University, Søren Primdahl, Manager of Strategic Projects, Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S, and Professor Peter Roepstorff, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark among others.
Participants had the opportunity to choose between 27 different seminars organized in 4 parallel sessions, to visit informational booths by the progressive vendors, and to network with industry professionals. Throughout the day the participants enjoyed the food and service of the Symbion kitchen and staff.
The conference ended with an annual raffle drawing and a look forward to next year's conference ESAC 2011.


The CHAT authors are interested in remapping the traditional canonical understanding of composition and rhetoric. From this discussion, I was struck most by the rethinking of delivery as a significant canon. I agree that the role of delivery was significantly diminished after English Studies developed as a written discipline as opposed to the oratorical goals of classical rhetoric. This may have resonated with me as I am working with a delivery system for my object of study, but it seems to build on a thread I have been working with. Last week, I added nodes to civic web sites to show the link between the evaluative criterion of usability and Spinuzzi's declaration of communication and information design becoming ever-more inextricable linked. I added the claim from CHAT authors to that set of nodes that spoke to the same overlap in English and the digital world.
To that growth, I added a node for "delivery" as the CHAT authors describe as being made up of "mediation" and "distribution", or choices we make about form and choices we make for getting that form to the audience respectively. I see a connection between mediation and the cluster of nodes dealing with how English Studies is linked to information technology. The growing use of digital media for rhetorical products requires mediation, choice of form, probably more than the traditional printed essay due to the highly variable environment that does not have a prescribed set of style guidelines like MLA. I thought about where else we have seen mediation as an important element. I thought of genre and Vatz's argument about the role of the rhetor. Genre mediates content by restricting it to a particular form. The rhetor chooses and edits content thus mediating the information an audience receives. I connected these nodes to the mediation node.
I added a node to genre to show the connection between it and what the CHAT authors call "affordances." I wrote about this in my reading notes and feel there may be some further exploration on that point - namely an idea I am kicking around about where action comes from. It seems genre theorists argue that actions stem from genres, but I think the CHAT authors are saying that actions collect into certain affordances that then make objects' use easier or more difficult. Are they coming at action from different angles? One with action as an effect of genre, the other with genre (affordances) as an effect of action?
Lastly, I added a node for "memory networks", the burgeoning archivist I like to see myself as. I connected this to Foucault's archives that I already suggested are a type of network. I connected a node for Solberg and Rohan, both CHAT authors dealing with memory, to that. Solberg suggests strong memories can impact the emotional environment in a positive way and Rohan argues that collective memory is built upon the reuse and repurposing of memory artifacts. I see both of these views as bearing on my object of study as effects of the seeing UPS as a memory network. I also connected that UPS node to "distribution" from the previous paragraph.
This is making me thinking about the relationship between memory and delivery. The classical canon suggests that to deliver a speech, we must have committed it to memory. The UPS is both a memory network, like Rohan's grates collecting thoughts and building a group memory, and a distributive system. I think this will be an interesting place to explore - and I'm glad the mind map was there to suggest it. I'm not sure I would have thought about it otherwise.
I really appreciate that your mindmap is developing around concepts you find interesting and are trying to flesh out (instead of only developing around the readings). This shows you are applying what you are learning (even if it is still only application in messy MM/invention stage). Keep up the great work!


The last four meetings between these sides have produced one win each and two draws. They have each scored a total of two goals in the process. Two of the last four Champions League Finals have ended level after 90 minutes while one of the others was level until an 89th minute winner settled it in Bayern Munich's favour. If the scores are level towards the end of this game, both sides would probably rather take an additional 30 minutes than risk losing it late on. Odds of 11/5 are worth taking for Real and Atletico to cancel each other out in 90 minutes.
Real Madrid have won 10 of their 13 European Cup finals while Atletico have reached two finals, losing both (including the extra-time defeat to Real Madrid two years ago). Real Madrid have scored 27 goals in this season's Champions League, 11 more than Atletico. They have also conceded two fewer than Atletico. Atletico have registered under 30% possession in each of their last four Champions League games and they are likely to soak up the pressure once more and attempt to hit Real on the break. That being the case, their high-intensity pressing game could cause fatigue among their players, particularly if the game goes beyond 90 minutes.
The last four matches between Real and Atletico have produced a total of just four goals and therefore a goal-fest seems unlikely on Saturday. Atletico Madrid had easily the best defensive record in La Liga this season while Real Madrid have kept 10 clean sheets in 12 Champions League matches this term. It is difficult to see either side conceding more than once on Saturday. However, Atletico have only kept one clean sheet in their last seven matches away from the Vicente Calderon and therefore Real will be confident of finding a breakthrough at the San Siro. Atletico's sheer will and desire, accompanied by a significant goal-threat of their own, makes odds of 11/2 seem more than reasonable for a 1-1 correct score after 90 minutes.
Cristiano Ronaldo is just one goal short of his own record of 17 goals in a Champions League campaign and he could become only the second player to score in three European Cup finals. He is also set to become the competition's top scorer for a fourth successive season. Ronaldo has scored 51 goals in 49 appearances this season and he has scored 15 goals in 24 games against Atletico, eight of which were scored in the opening 25 minutes. In a game that is unlikely to see goals aplenty, the value is in backing a first goalscorer as opposed to an anytime scorer at much-reduced odds (as low as 8/15 in some places).
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Both Rangers and Hibs have had some disappointing results lately but, while Hibs have been (ultimately unsuccessfully) battling for promotion, Rangers have been able to take their foot off the gas having secured the Championship title over six weeks ago. Despite seemingly taking it easy in the last few games, Rangers finished the season 11 points clear of their nearest rivals and a cup win would earn them qualification for the Europa League next term on their return to the SPL. Hibs have won just six of their last 20 matches in all competitions (D6, L8) and they have lost six of their last nine away from Easter Road (W1, D2).
Crystal Palace won just two of their 21 Premier League matches since Christmas (D7, L12) and, although they have reserved their best results for the FA Cup this year, they will arrive at Wembley with more hope than belief. Man Utd, meanwhile, have won eight of their last 11 matches in all competitions (D1, L2) and an FA Cup win on Saturday is their last opportunity to salvage something from another highly disappointing season. Although United have struggled to score goals this season, no Premier League side conceded fewer times. They rarely entertain these days but they have enough quality in their squad to break down Palace's defence and one goal might just be enough.
Milan finished the season in seventh place on the Serie A table, 34 points behind champions Juventus. Milan have won just two of their last 11 matches (D4, L5). Juventus, meanwhile, have won 29 of their last 32 domestic matches (D1, L2) and they are hoping to become the first Italian side to complete back-to-back domestic doubles having ended the season nine points clear at the top of the Serie A table. Juventus have won every one of the last eight meetings between these two sides.
Orlando City v Montreal Impact (12.30am*).


"Oppose the Supplement-Killing Guidance Just Issued by the FDA"
It is unacceptable by any thinking person and needs immediate counter-action to defeat it.
In direct violation of Congress' intent in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (intended to allow consumers greater access to more nutritional supplements), the FDA has instead made a 180-degree turn to do just the opposite. In its just-issued Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues, your access and freedom to use the many emerging, cutting-edge dietary-supplements is being stripped from you. This directly affects your health and freedom, hamstrings the free-market, and hands the pharmaceutical industry an even greater monopoly on health and healthcare.
The newly-released draft guidance for the NDI notification process is completely unacceptable. The NDI Guidance as written does not follow the intent of Congress. Moreover, the Guidance will not improve the safety of supplements and instead the Guidance will cost jobs, destroy businesses, increase healthcare and supplement costs, stifle innovation, and decrease Americans' health, while adding to the already tedious and expensive manufacturers' burdens of red-tape reporting.
The threat to consumer access to thousands of dietary supplements as well as the onerous demands placed upon nutritional supplement manufacturers puts the FDA in direct violation, without any apparent accountability or penalty to laws already enacted by Congress.
The draft Guidance does not need to be revised yet again. It is on the wrong track completely - ignoring the wishes of Congress and Americans. It needs to be junked and the FDA must start over again from scratch with Congressional intent in mind this time or else abandon the process altogether.
Please send a letter to your Congressional representatives now, asking that Congress take immediate action to curtail the FDA's bad-faith actions in further suppressing healthful dietary supplements.


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Au , il est le neuvième joueur indien avec un classement Elo de .

Biographie et carrière

Grand maître international depuis 2016, Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan a remporté la médaille de bronze au Championnat du monde d'échecs junior 2016. En 2017, il marqua 6 points sur 9 à l'open de l'île de Man. L'année suivante, il finit troisième de l'Open de Noël 2018.

En 2019, il termine quatrième du Championnat d'Asie d'échecs 2019, ce qui le qualifie pour la Coupe du monde d'échecs 2019. Lors de la Coupe du monde 2019, disputée à Khanty-Mansiïsk, il est battu au premier tour par Tamir Nabaty.

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Naissance en janvier 1938
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Grand maître international

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"They are Catholic and Protestant students who were on a retreat in the location when the earthquake occurred, causing the church to collapse," said Albert Podung, a Church worker who lives in Palu, the coastal city devastated by the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on September 28.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said on October 3 the earthquake and tsunami had killed more than 1,400 people and injured 2,500 others. More than 120 people were still missing.
Yenni Suryani, country manager for Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. Church's international relief and development agency of the United States, said humanitarian groups were struggling to get aid to people in the hard-hit cities of Palu and Donggala.
Fatwa Fatillah, a CRS Indonesia staffer who is art of the team assessing the damage, said everything was destroyed in Balaroa village, on the outskirts of Palu.
"The streets are ruined and there's no water or sanitation facilities for people gathered in shelters. Most families only have one tarp and one mat," he said.
Governor of Central Sulawesi Longki Djanggola declared a state of emergency until October 11.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis prayed for Indonesians after he recited the Angelus on September 30.
In a Chancery Notice issued to parishes on October 4, Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, the bishop of Hong Kong, asked the faithful to offer special prayers for the victims and relief workers. In support of emergency relief, the bishop appealed to parishes to take up donations on October 7 either by a second collection during Mass or by some other means.


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Brewing Community with Maureen Flynn
Photo by Chris Fitzgerald. Used with permission.
Brewing Community is a series of guest posts in which readers, writers, artists and fans are invited to share their experiences of community. Whether online or in person, these groups bring a great deal of support and sometimes stress to their members. The aim of this series is to share the joy and find ways to brew stronger communities. If you have some experiences you'd like to share, please let me know.
Today's guest is Maureen Flynn: poet, author and fan. I had the great pleasure of catching up with Maureen at Conflux in October, where she spoke movingly on David McDonald's Paying for Our Passion panel. Being a Doctor Who fan, she spent part of the convention cosplaying Missie and I always keep my eye out for her commentary on the latest episodes. Like me, she's a candidate for the NAFF race this year (so if you enjoy her post here, please consider voting for her).
Why building community matters
When Elizabeth kindly asked me to guest post for this series, my head reeled. There are so many different places I could go with talking about my journey in being both separate and part of community. It started from my days as a young carer feeling like a fish out of water amongst other children, but there is also teenage days experimenting in online fandom and fan fiction during 2007-2011 as a form of escape and self-discovery. There is also discovering safe places to participate in community through blogging, involvement in local clubs and societies in the geek fandom space and, recently, cons and the speculative fiction community in Australia. Even, I now realise, organisations like my brother's disability support provider, who I don't need to justify myself to or explain myself to because they live and breathe not just disability every day, but also local relationships and the values that matter an awful lot to me. The truth is I can't separate these disparate communities because they all provide me with the same thing. They keep me connected to people that I love and value and care about, and keep me connected to the people who love and value and care about me.
For me, sense of community starts with my carer role, with my experiences of isolation and difference because of that role, and my participation on the Helena Bonham Carter forum as a way to escape feeling different. I can tell you this without any shade of embarrassment: Helena Bonham Carter probably saved my life, helped me realise who I was at my heart's core and helped me to be the writer I am now. Her fandom gave me permission to be weird and wonderful and to write like my life depended on it, no one judging my words. She was, and is, a wonderful role model: funny, smart, down to earth, and always honest about being herself. Her fans were creative, fierce, different, daring, pushing boundaries. They also told me I should never give up on my writing or apologise for who I or my family was. When I was part of that fandom, I made myself a promise: I would never be judgemental or unkind if I could help it, never exclude people because they are different, never worry about how others saw me or judged me, or do what people expected of me again. It set the tone for the range of communities I chose to be part of in later years.
Why does participation in my communities matter? There is an interesting discussion happening in the community care space as federal reform rocks the sector. That discussion is around two things that link back to community: inclusion and the concept of "the good life." What does meaningful inclusion look like for Australian citizens and what does a good life look like? Is it the same for all? And how do people, especially marginalised and/or disadvantaged people, achieve it? These discussions are complex and there are no easy answers, but there is basic consensus on some of it.
People who are connected to community are less isolated and less vulnerable
People who are connected to community have greater social opportunities
People who are connected to multiple communities are more likely to feel good about themselves and have greater resilience
It should be evident from both this post and my post for David McDonald that these statements hold true for me. Without the multiple communities I identify with I wouldn't be the strong, resilient carer I am today. People in the speculative fiction community are sometimes surprised that I put so much effort into attending book launches, bringing along friends to events and participating in things like the Aurealis Awards, but for me it is a no-brainer because community works both ways. Let me give you two examples. In Melbourne, I met a bunch of Helena fans for the Tim Burton exhibition. One girl I met lived in the same LGA as me and we'd never known despite chatting on a forum. She didn't have a big friendship network. I recognised that she'd fit right into mine. I invited her to a bunch of events and she's now firmly ensconced in my friendship group. She paid it back by becoming my brother's volunteer through his disability provider, enthusiastically supporting my brother to finish university and expand his social networks. Without Elise in my family's life, I doubt my brother would be where he is today. I doubt I would have had half as much fun as I have had in the past few years at countless dress-up parties, movie nights, and this year, at a memorable "alternative valentine's day" and a charity ball.
I almost didn't attend this year's Aurealis. I was feeling down for a number of reasons, largely relating to the carer role. I felt like no one in the writer community could really understand what I felt. The effort of even thinking about going all the way to Canberra was exhausting. At the last minute, I went. I was shocked by the amount of people who came to speak with me, to ask me how I was doing, to offer writing advice and titbits of knowledge. I had been an idiot to try to shut myself away from community. The more I did, the less I wrote and the less resilient I felt, the more isolated I became.
It's interesting to me that the values about community I learnt from my HBC years still hold true today. It's interesting that again and again different communities I am involved with have halted hard falls, offered new horizons, supported me, offered friendship and advice. I am often asked to speak with carers about reform and about caring for themselves. I give them this advice: find your own passions, don't be subsumed by the caring role. Get out there and find community, because it will be your opportunity and your salvation, and because if you never try to put yourself out there, you will never know what might have been. I am beginning to see more and more that this advice applies beyond carers because here's the thing: if people put into the community, the community puts back into you. Building community matters because community connects us together, unites us, reminds us of human relationships and why they matter. Without them the daily grind wears us down, plunges us into tunnel vision, reduces opportunity, and decimates social capital, leads us to despair and isolation and danger as we fall off cliffs we never needed to fall from. That's why I'll fight hard to support my communities. All of them. Because belonging to them matters to me and to countless others. Because as long as I'm part of communities I've chosen, I don't have to be the isolated and frightened and timid person I was all of those years ago.
Maureen Flynn works with community care providers in disability and aged care as they navigate federal reform. In her spare time, she writes young adult speculative fiction novels and short stories, verse poetry and she has just ventured into writing crime. Currently, she is looking for a home for her YA fantasy manuscripts and is working on a crime novel and a verse novel about "the historical Merlin". Maureen reviews speculative fiction novels at her WordPress blog, InkAshlings. Never one for saying no to a challenge, she also reviews genre books, films and TV shows and has interviewed authors for her blog. Her self-published verse novella, My Heart's Choir Sings is available from Amazon and Smashwords. You can follow Maureen at her website, on Goodreads o rTwitter.
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What do you call a 'Nickname' that's longer than the actual name?
I'm pretty sure I used to know the term for a nickname that was longer or an expansion of a person's name.
EXAMPLE: My name is Sunny but friends sometimes call me Sunshine.
Though longer, Sunshine is still a nickname since nicknames don't have to be shorter than the original. But I'm sure there's a specialized term for this sort of reverse construction. Help!
single-word-requests antonyms names nicknames
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If you're prepared to accept, say, Mo as both a nickname and a diminutive of Maurice, then note this citation from the full OED: Compared with 'capello' = 'a hat,' the Italian word 'capellone' = 'a great hat' is an augmentative. My link there is to dictionary.reference.com, because most people won't be able to access subscriber-only OED. – FumbleFingers Aug 11 '15 at 13:09
That isn't really an antonym, though. The antonym of nickname would be real name or proper name. – John Lawler Aug 11 '15 at 13:35
@FumbleFingers, I think you're getting close to the one I can't quite remember. Like your suggestion, I think it took a nickname term (diminutive) and negated the root (augmentative). – SoSaysSunny Aug 11 '15 at 13:51
@JohnLawler, +nod+ I cringed a little at my own title. I wanted to use the term for "shorten a name" but I couldn't remember that one, either -- and I was afraid of sending myself into some sort of infinite loop of defining. – SoSaysSunny Aug 11 '15 at 13:52
Why would you expect a nickname that is longer than the name to have a special name? Do you also expect a nickname that is shorter than the name to have a special name? – Drew Aug 22 '15 at 1:41
Short nicknames are called "Nicknames"
Long nicknames are called "Nicholasnames"
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On September 17, 2000, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI) and Ministry of Health (MOH) of Yemen received reports about the occurrence of disease compatible with Rift Valley fever (RVF) in El Zuhrah district of Hodeidah governorate. Reports of animal disease included abortions and deaths in young animals. Surveillance efforts by MOH and MAI documented widespread disease among humans and animals in the area of Wadi Mawr in El Zuhrah district, which is located on a coastal plain that extends from the southern tip of Yemen into the Jizan area of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health has described a simultaneous outbreak of RVF in the Jizan area in KSA (1,2). This report summarizes the investigation of the Yemen outbreak.
Disease in humans. Because most patients in the outbreak area do not seek health care in medical facilities, mobile surveillance teams traveled to villages to interview case-patients or animal owners about recent illness in the community. Initial case finding was focused among villages in Wadi Mawr and was expanded to include areas throughout the coastal plain. The WHO case definition for disease in humans was used (3). During August 7--November 7, 2000, 1087 suspected case-patients were identified, including 121 (11%) persons who died. The mean age of suspected case-patients was 32.2 years (range: 1 month--95 years). The clinical spectrum of disease was typical of that associated with RVF and includes patients with hemorrhagic disease, encephalitis, retinitis, and uncomplicated RVF. Of the 1087, 815 (75%) case-patients reported exposure to sick animals, handling an abortus, or slaughtering animals in the week before onset of illness. Of 490 case-patients with serologic testing, 136 (26%) had IgM-class antibody to RVF virus; 17 (3%) patients had weakly reactive serologic test results. Serologically confirmed disease transmission was detected in 15 districts throughout the coastal plain and adjacent mountains.
Reported by: AAW Nasher, MD, AK Shiban, MD, M Al Eriyani, MD, A Aly Bourgy, MD, AH Al Kohlani, MD, M Benbrake, MD, S El Mktary, MD, K Al Selwy, MD, AA Kader, MD, MO Abby, MPH, GG Amran, MD, D El Wasaby, A Zabarah, A Sabet, M Azy, M Header, HR Header, M El Hady Amin, YA Wareth, MD, M Ramadany, Yemen Ministry of Health; AS Al Gabali, AM Al-Arashi, G Al Ariyani, DVM, N Al Hamadi, DVM, H Al-Fosail, DVM, M Al Qadasi, DVM, K Said, DVM, A Hadi, DVM, Yemen Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation; A Al-Jouffi, Sanaa Medical Univ, Sanaa, Yemen. Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations. AT Ba Omer, S Al-Busaidi, MD, S Ismalili, DVM, AA Al Sohby, DVM, SI Mash Hady, AA Ghalil Shabana, K Al-Salmi, Oman Ministry of Health. HA El-Zein, MD, M Aly Khalifa, MD, F El-Samani, MD, Z Hallaj, MD, D Klauke, MD, World Health Organization. AA El-Kholy, MD, IM Ibrahim, MD, W Naguib, MD, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Arab Republic of Egypt. D Salman, DVM, S Lewis, PhD, E Dykstra, PhD, H El-Sakka, MD, R Graham, DVM, F Mahoney, MD, US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3.
The outbreak described in this report coincides with an ongoing outbreak of RVF in KSA that together represent the first documented evidence of RVF virus transmission outside Africa. RNA sequencing of the virus from KSA indicates that it is similar to the RVF viruses isolated from East Africa in 1998 (1).
CDC. Outbreak of Rift Valley fever---Saudi Arabia, August--October, 2000. MMWR 2000;49:905--8.
CDC. Update: outbreak of Rift Valley fever---Saudi Arabia, August--November, 2000. MMWR 2000;49:982--5.
World Health Organization. WHO recommended surveillance standards. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1999.


Due to high water from the flooding Mississippi River, the Canadian Pacific decided not to detour but instead push/pull trains through the high water. Although the water here is over the rail, it was low enough not to affect traction motors. This pair of SD40-2s are slowly moving north to grab the rear of the 273 train and pull it into the yard.


For the second time in three weeks, the West Valley beach volleyball team's match with Gavilan came down to a winner-take-all third set in the 3's pairs between Vikings Kayla Keller and Hannah Reynoso and Rams Flo Tukuaoga and Katelyn Viray. Keller and Reynoso prevailed this time to clinch WVC's 3-2 match victory and boost the Vikings to the top spot in the Coast Conference with a 6-1 mark. After dropping the opening set 21-15, Keller and Reynoso took set two 21-15 and then dominated the third 15-5. The match's opening round ended 1-1 as Viking 4's Claire Danna and Gabriela Valencia stay undefeated against community college opponents with a 21-17, 21-11 win over Melissa Zanotto/Evelyn Clonts, and an injury to Shannon Greene forced a Greene/Lizhya Shoomoonof forfeit to Gavilan's Noel Chavarria/Lex Chavarria in the 5's. Rams Katia Dizon/Keona Stopper prevailed 21-17, 21-12 over Katrina Hochmuth/Rene Wash in the 2's and Viking 1's Kaylin Henderson/Mapuhola Sekona stayed unbeaten with a 21-12, 21-13 win over Mikaela Banda/Sarah Weiby. Emily Paxton/Angelica Reyna rallied for a 15-21, 21-16, 19-17 win over Zoe Harada/Adrianne Orahood in the exhibition 6's match. Earlier in the afternoon, the Vikings defeated Foothill 4-1. Henderson/Sekona took the 1's 21-13, 21-14 over Fiona Green/Iris Calderon; Hochmuth/Wash prevailed 21-19, 18-21, 15-8 in a tense 2's battle with Ally Pereira/Olivia Stubblefield; the 3's went to Keller/Reynoso 21-12, 21-10 over Hannah Rosen/Karina Lucero; Danna/Valencia took the 4's 21-16, 21-17 over Sydney Do/Alaina Valenzuela; Foothill's Sammie Sargent/Leanna Zamora outlast Greene/Shoomoonof 21-16, 21-17. The exhibition 6's match went to WVC's Emily Paxton/Angelica Reyna 21-12, 21-10 over Owls Chinatsu Kobayashi/Cece Oliveira.


Samsung flagship device Galaxy Note 5 is back in the market with the updated storage. Samsung has announced a new version of Note 5 called the Special Winter Edition for the holiday season. It is distinct from the previous version only in terms of storage.
Samsung has undoubtedly given a 128GB of built-in storage to the Note 5's initial release making it a device with lots of internal storage. The Winter Edition Note5 will only be available in the South Korean market, through SKT and KT carriers and with a price tag of KRW 999,900 (about $845 at current exchange rates). Color options for the handset include Gold Platinum and Silver Titanium.
Samsung is offering other holiday deals on S6 edge models, wireless chargers, battery packs as well as accessories like the Gear VR and Gear S2 smartwatch.
The deal will also get launched soon by Samsung.


As we mentioned yesterday, the BMW X5 xDrive 35d and the BMW 335d will make their debut at the Detroit Show next week. We didn't have the full press release yesterday but we do have it now so we're going to share it with you. Take time to read the full document, tons of interesting information.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – January 2, 2008… Entering a new era in the company's mission to deliver ultimate driving machines that combine superior performance with exemplary fuel economy, the BMW Group will debut two vehicle models equipped with the BMW Advanced Diesel with BluePerformance at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit – the X5 xDrive35d and the 335d.
Both the 335d and the X5 xDrive35d will be launched in all 50 US states in the fall of 2008. Pricing will be announced closer to launch time..


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Project Citizen is a project-based civic education program that involves students in understanding public policy and emphasizes responsible participation in local and state government. Students learn how to interact with government agencies to effect change.
Project Citizen is a project based civic education program for students grades 3-12. It emphasizes responsible participation in local and state government. The program involves students in understanding public policy. In the process students develop an appreciation and feelings of civic empowerment. Entire classes of students work cooperatively in small groups to effect change in their community. Students develop a digital portfolio that documents their work, and upload it to a website where it can be shared with other classes. See projects from the New Jersey State Project Citizen Showcases from 2012-2018.
Reflecting on the learning experience individually and as a class.
March 27, 2019: Free Project Citizen workshop at Rutgers University, Busch Campus Center, Piscataway.
The annual Project Citizen digital portfolio showcase will be held on June 7, 2019.
Submit digital projects by email to robert.odell@rutgers.edu.
"I use the program in all five of my civic classes. Every class works on a different topic of their own choosing, and puts together its own portfolio. We hold a competition between the classes in front of a panel of judges, made up of members of the community, to determine which class will represent our school at the state Project Citizen competition. Many students who have started 7th grade with distaste for social studies leave at the end of the year with a positive attitude and perspective."
reflections about the process and what was learned and a backup digital binder with research, letters, etc.
Create a portfolio yourself to provide an example for your students and to anticipate challenges.
Test out your technology ahead of time where students will be working on their portfolios to ensure they have access to certain tools.
Demonstrate each technology step-by-step with students in a lab setting.
If you are new to using Web 2.0 resources, start small.
Model adherence to copyright and attribution rules by having students use their own photos and videos, search copyright-free sites, and teach citation rules.
Due to school Internet filters, some sites may be blocked.
All sites listed have a "free" option available.


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Job seekers gathered at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Sunday to meet with potential employers in the travel industry.
"Gotta pay the bills somehow, student loans are killing me," Thomas Johnson said while checking out the job fair. "Just kind of looking for a future in flying, you know, anything to get my foot in the door. Just trying to take off into the skies, you know."
According to organizers, more than a dozen companies were scheduled to be on-site, looking to fill roughly 400 positions from aviation to hospitality.
"We're always looking for great airframe and power plant mechanics. They're pretty hard to come by, the world's their oyster, so they can go anywhere they'd like," said Everts Air Cargo spokesperson Krista Evans.
The number of passengers moving through Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport last summer rose by 4.5 percent compared to 2017. Jim Szczesniak, the airport's manager, predicts business will pick up again by this summer.
"We're specifically looking for equipment operators, airfield electricians and heavy duty equipment mechanics," said Ted Stevens Airfield Maintenance Manager Zaramie Lindseth.
The Anchorage Travel and Tourism Industry Job Fair was sponsored by Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, and Northern Air Cargo.


Recently, I was charged with creating a user edit screen. The user edit screen was to have 4 different "areas".
We decided to ajax out all the different sections as to make the website more responsive. If someone disabled an account, all we would have to do is update sections 1 and section 2. No need to make an expensive call to try and establish all the roles the user has in the system.
In any event, the point is, when you dynamically load a form, the client side validation does not work out of the bat. To answer why, we have to look at the jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js libraries that MS provided for us.
Great piece of code. The problem is, this only runs once... when the original document is loaded (unless you include all of your JS again in the AJAX layout you are using.. but that would be a lot of duplication).
The solution is quite simple. All you have to do is add a call to the parsing mechanism with the jquery selector for the form you wish to validate.
Voila, you will now have client side validation on your dynamically loaded form.
If you want this form to submit via an ajax post (using jquery natively) you have to determine if the form is valid first. You can find out more here.


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Q: How to fill the first square with box-shadow trick? I was experimenting with some box-shadow tricks, I cannot fill the first square (0 0 [color]).
Best explained with followed sample:

.box {
  width: 90px;
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}
.box:before {
  content: '';
  width: 45px;
  height: 45px;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 90;
  box-shadow: 0 0 #ffff00, 0 -45px #ffff00, -45px 0 #ffff00, 45px 0 #ff0000, 0 45px #3333ff, 45px 45px #00ff00;
}
.mark {
  font-size: 45px;
  width: 45px;
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
}

  ?

A: The first square (0,0) is actually the space occupied by the pseudo-element and so the only way to fill it with a box-shadow is by using an inset shadow like in the below snippet.
A normal box-shadow cannot be used because, normal shadows are always on the outside :)

.box {
  width: 90px;
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}
.box:before {
  content: '';
  width: 45px;
  height: 45px;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 90;
  box-shadow: 0 -45px #ffff00, -45px 0 #ffff00, 45px 0 #ff0000, 0 45px #3333ff, 45px 45px #00ff00, inset 0 0 0 45px orange;
}
.mark {
  font-size: 45px;
  width: 45px;
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
}

  ?

The other more simpler way would be to add a background-color to the pseudo-element.

.box {
  width: 90px;
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}
.box:before {
  content: '';
  width: 45px;
  height: 45px;
  background-color: orange;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 90;
  box-shadow: 0 -45px #ffff00, -45px 0 #ffff00, 45px 0 #ff0000, 0 45px #3333ff, 45px 45px #00ff00;
}
.mark {
  font-size: 45px;
  width: 45px;
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
}

  ?

A: Set the background-color of the .box:before element to yellow and remove the yellow box shadow. Then set the z-index to -1 to render the question mark.
.box:before {
    content: '';
    width: 45px;
    height: 45px;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    background-color: #FF0;
    box-shadow: 0 0, 0 0, 0 0, 45px 0 #F00, 0 45px #3FF, 45px 45px #0F0;
}

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Improving iMessages with Geofencing
By Zac Szewczyk on 2014/06/28 08:47:51 EST in Tech
The other day, as I drove home from work and practiced my dictation to the tune of Siri's inept transcription abilities, I deftly tapped iMessages' "Send as Text Message" tooltip for what — given the number of text messages I send each month — must quite literally fall somewhere in the neighborhood of the millionth time. I tapped this button two or three times until, finally, my phone realized I wanted every outgoing message sent without the use of Apple's clever and oh-so-convenient replacement. Then, as if to mock me, a few seconds later it switched back to sending everything as an iMessage. I just couldn't win.
Over the last few months, and to a great degree recently, it seems, the utility of iMessage has become a hot-button issue for many in the tech press and its adjacent areas. In the experience of most, Apple's text messaging replacement works like a charm: Jim Dalrymple often talks about having no issues with the service whatsoever. At the same time, however, a likely smaller but nevertheless disproportionally vocal faction — as is often the case on the internet — just can't get the darn app to work with any semblance of consistency. As you may have guessed from the previous paragraph's anecdote, I fall in the latter category: since my girlfriend got an iPhone and iMessage became a "viable" option, iMessage has stymied our efforts to remain connected and in touch with one another more times than I care to remember. And because she is by far and away the one person I talk to most through this medium, this unreliability has given iMessage such a bad name that I have all but sworn the app off and gone with a popular alternative like WhatsApp, for example, or another, similar service. The one thing that keeps me coming back, though, and simultaneously the greatest frustration I have nearly every single day, is the inconsistency: sometimes it works great, at other times it works well enough to pass muster, but it fails just often enough to imbue within me an incredible level of distrust I tend to reserve only for weathermen and technology analysts. To its credit, I must admit, at least it fails more consistently in certain situations than in others. If that sounds awkward and convoluted, that's because everything about this is, and therein lies the root of my problem.
Of the near innumerable number of times iMessage fails me, it does so most often when either my girlfriend or I am away from home and thus away from a WiFi network. So long as both of us have a strong and stable WiFi connection, iMessage works reasonably well. Unfortunately though, WiFi is a luxury neither of us have for the majority of our days, which brings me back to the situation described at the top of this article where I battled with iMessage while on my way home earlier this week. "What can I do?" I asked myself. "How can I fix this?" Every time I leave home and my phone tries to intelligently send an iMessage, I end up locked in a loop of variable and possibly infinite length, just trying to tell my girlfriend "Hi". Even before this thought had finished crossing my mind though, the solution hit me: geofenced iMessages.
Every problem I, and I would wager many others, too, have with iMessages comes down to a combination of the sender's phone attempting to dispatch iMessages at inopportune times, and the recipient's phone failing to inform the former's device that all future messages should, in fact, get sent as text messages in order to ensure timely delivery. At least for me, those inopportune moments always occur when either I as the sender or my girlfriend as the recipient, or vise-versa, leave a certain location — namely, our respective homes. If only there was some way for me to say that I only wanted to allow my phone to send and receive iMessages within a certain radius of a given location, or only when connected to a WiFi network, every single one of my problems with this service would be immediately solved. Now, that's not to say this is necessarily the best solution, nor even a good one. But all the iPhone users who read this, think of the times and places when iMessages has failed you; like me, I imagine there is at least a small degree of commonality between them, even if only a little. So while goefenced iMessages might not be the best or most elegant solution, it would solve all my problems, and I would bet every one of a great number of other people as well. And that's what Apple is all about. really: solving problems and making technology approachable. Unfortunately, as it stands now, iMessages flies directly in the face of that driving goal.


There and Back Again: Good things and bad things. But the good is REALLY GOOD.
Good things and bad things. But the good is REALLY GOOD.
Well everyone, I'm three months in to my adventure here in the Republic of Korea. What a whirlwind it has been! This weekend included a lot of ups and downs. Well really, one big up and one big down.
Saturday morning I was hanging out, Skyping Andrea, Liz and Casey, and we had a great time. I was so happy to see them and chat, even though it made me miss home and everyone a bit. I was cozy and warm, with my ondol heating the floor nicely. I turned it off for a bit because I was toasty. Fast forward about an hour or so, when I want to take a shower. I hit the button for the water heater and proceed to the bathroom like normal. But then I notice that the water is not getting warm. In fact, it's ICE COLD. So I go look at the heater panel and lo and behold, a yellow light is flashing.
After lots of pressing buttons, googling and messing around with the boiler, I succeeded only in making myself super frustrated and nothing else. Since I was going out in the afternoon, I took an ice shower (fastest shower ever) and huddled under the blankets till it was time to go. Lauren and I went to a short film festival in one of the richer areas of town and had an excellent time. Though the American film was by far the worst. WAMP.
So I returned home to my frigid apartment, hoping it would all be a dream. NOPE. No heat, no hot water. I bundled up and went to bed. The next day, I fared no better. I made progress in problem solving, but alas, the problem was not solved. So thankfully Sarah lives close, so Lauren (who was planning to come to my apartment to watch the Hunger Games) and I went over to Sarah's instead, where we spent the evening making stupid remarks and jokes, eating pizza, watching a movie, making movies for Lauren's English class, and just having a great time.
It was really helpful to me because I have been struggling a little with personal life stuff while here. My work life is great and my social life is great, I'm seeing awesome, amazing things I would never have thought I would see in my life. But at home, things keep going wrong. My phone, my internet, now my heat just as we are hitting winter. I had trouble with my heat in the beginning of the year, but when it was 90 degrees anyway, an ice bath was welcome. In November, when the lows are starting to get pretty low, it's not quite as fun. it's just like, as soon as one things gets fixed, the next thing goes wrong. I'm waiting for all my lights to burn out or something next. I actually had to boil water yesterday and mix it with some cold to get a good water temperature so I could wash my hair. I've dealt with this exact problem before (see February in London, but it's harder to deal with it on my own, especially when there are instructions on how to fix it on the boiler. Which I can't read. Don't worry though, I have plenty of people at school to help and great friends who will invite me over the second they hear I'm having trouble, so I'm really thankful for that.
But the good news outweighs it all! Maybe the universe didn't want me to be TOO happy! Late Saturday night, I found out some amazing news. I was surfing the net when I saw someone post something about a cast change in the Phantom of the Opera World Tour (which I was disappointed to remember came through Seoul in 2012), and they mentioned Daegu. My eyes reread it a couple of times, and my brain said "Daegu.... Daegu... THAT'S IN KOREA!" Which it totally is. The Phantom of the Opera World Tour is coming to South Korea!!!!
Actually, earlier that morning I had been thinking about how much I wanted to see it again. So, it starts February 27th in Daegu, and I will definitely be going! Even more exciting is the fact that the man who is playing the Phantom is Brad Little, the SAME man who was playing the title character when I saw it for the first time in Buffalo, back in 2003. If THAT isn't the universe telling me to go, I don't know what is!!
So basically, even though my apartment is cold right now and I'm a bit miffed that another device has betrayed me, I have good friends to help me through and an amazing show to see in a few months. It's definitely not the worst that could happen!
Also, I heard the Bills finally won and the Sabres are looking a little better, so huzzah to that! I hope everyone is staying warm (unlike me!) and that things are going well for you all! Ciao for now!
EDIT: Heat and hot water got fixed last night. I came home to my landlady and a repairman trying to dry up a bunch of water in my kitchen, so I think something legit was messed up with it. Oh well. Doesn't matter. Fixed now and I had a hot shower and a warm apartment yesterday, so I AM HAPPY. EXTRA HAPPY.
If it was the middle yellow lights from this picture - http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1M99EYcpa04/UiINkCAHvAI/AAAAAAAAC_U/rPwVlKRX-JA/s1600/IMG_2177.JPG that was blinking, then you need to add water into the boiler following the instruction printed in the front of the boiler. At least that's what written on that panel.
I figured the instruction printed on the front of the boiler - if it's there to begin with - would also be in Korean but hey one step at a time... I have to say if I'm getting only cold water, filling up some part of the boiler with water is not the first thing that would come to my mind. Maybe something's wrong with sensor/thermostat/relay or maybe some problem with the ignition. But I guess it must not be uncommon since the control panel has the specific warning light and the "fill up with water" explanation built into it. If you still have only cold water and can take a clear enough picture of the how to fill up with water instruction, I would be happy to help out a fellow phan.


All I needed was one more point to be able to queue my new pally for LFR. Since it was Monday night, I really wanted to get an attempt in before everything reset.
So I kept running stuff and I would get drops, but they were the wrong kind of drops. I got a shield in Gate of the Setting Sun (yay!) which was an upgrade, but I had the inscription fan in my bag so I didn't give me an ilevel boost.
Why not equip the fan? Shut up shut up shut up! Pallies don't get fans! It's bad enough I have a shaman with a stick! That fan is for my priest.
No drops for me, but as I was leveling my paladin I was taking advantage of the bonus faction rep for running a random each day. She was already honored with Shado Pan so I knew eventually I would just get enough VP for the cloak and that would be that. Sure I wanted to be ready sooner than that, but Blizzard hates me so that was what ended up happening.
Finally I could get into MSV LFR. I am being nice when I say that the Monday night LFR crew is not exactly the A-squad of WoW.
3 other holy paladins in with me? Yes, that sounds about right.
For my troubles that run I got a new ring. Ok, that's cool. Our illustrious raid leader then said that he was going to queue for the 2nd half so anyone that wanted to continue could stay.
Elegon was a wipe when both tanks fell the first time the floor disappeared. One tank then left and we were in queue forever. I did consider leaving, but it seemed like this was the only LFR going on anyway and I really just wanted to finish. Finally one of the dps stepped up tank and he died. For that I got a new helm.
The last boss was uneventful and I was done with my first week of MSV. Yesterday, when I ran it again, it was funny how much smoother everything went.
Sadly the only drop I got was the same helm I already won. So that's another toon with no shield. But at least I haven't been given the fan.
Omg I actually play my horde toons!
So apparently that shirt was covering up her exposed belly. Erm ok. The weird cut-off for her belly looked wrong. There was so much detailing in the neck and top part of the robe that having her stomach randomly showing seemed really distracting. Shirt back on, get into queue.
Right from the start it was a mess. It seemed like 10 seconds into the raid (the 2nd half) the entire floor was covered in purple fire and no one was taunting the dragons. Wipe #1. Mass exodus of people, including tanks, then off again. Same issue, wipe #2.
Well, I'm done here. I decided instead to take Notari out to Magister's Terrace and see if she could get some pretty clothes. She got some shoulders that went into her void storage and, after killing Kael'thas Sunstrider, she was picking through his spoils and found herself with a new pet.
Ugh. Ok, well at least it wasn't the mount.
I wasn't done with masochism so I switched over to Tenderloyne the Forgotten Holy Pally and sent her into LFR next. It went much smoother for her; she ended up with a new belt and a head token.
I hadn't realized that she had never done the 2nd half of LFR before so it was kind of embarassing when her achieve popped up. Whoops. I don't even think I would have taken her in if I realized she had never been there.
That was only the first part of the embarassment, because once I turned in the head token and gemmed and enchanted that thing up, I put it on her and was stunned. Horrible. It was horrible.
I had to take a ghetto screenshot because I couldn't get one from the loading screen. The thing is so huge that most of it goes off the screen. Maybe when she gets more matching pieces it won't look so awful, but I couldn't stand it. I didn't even think I had the patience to try to mog around it at this time.
So I did the rare thing for a non-mohawked toon and turned off helm. Sigh. One day I will make you pretty, just not right now.
After that, I wanted to run Sabryel the Other Blood Elf Toon But This One is a DK through MT and see if she could find some mog stuffs. I raced through that place and was feeling leet when I got the achieve at the end and saw that I had ran through it on normal.
Oops. Switched it to heroic and went through again. She got a cool looking axe that would be cool to mog. She also picked up a dagger that I really liked, too bad DKs can't use them.
Killed Kae'thas again, got the achieve for Heroic MT and was going through his loot when…are you effing kidding me?
Sabryel got the mount of her very first friggin' try??!! Sonofawhore.
I send two rarely played alts into a heroic with the intent of them finding some dress-up clothes and they each come out with something nicer? I don't have the pet or mount on Zarigar. I mean, sure I don't farm that regularly on Zari or anything, but it's annoying that they picked up that stuff with so little effort.
Sigh. The beautiful people get everything.
Or fayle, if you prefer.
Now that Notari was all pretty, she got the notion that she should step out of Orgrimmar and let the people gaze upon her gloriousness. So off into LFR she went.
It's always pretty telling when the dragon trash at the beginning goes terrible with many deaths. The people who drop at that point are probably the smart ones. Well, no one ever accused me of being smart.
Ultra, then, is a disaster with one of the tanks not picking him up and it becomes death city. The amusing thing is one of the tanks says, "I've never been here and no one told me how the fight goes." Well, that part is sad. The amusing part is that people still complain that it was the heals' fault or that there was not enough dps. Really, guys, scroll up and read.
The second attempt is also pretty deathy, but he goes down and I am still alive. Yay, it's wonderful being pretty and getting to live! His drops include 2 helm tokens and 1 chest token. Homina-homina-homina…give me! I've ragged on Notari's spirit helm so long–she needs this upgrade! And there is only one other mage, good for me?
I won a roll! I won a roll! I got…the chest. Sigh. Oh well. It's still very much an upgrade so it's all right.
Lootship is a one-shot deal. I am terribad at getting out of the shockwave part–if I had a nickel for every time one of Rep's pallies has to use Lay on Hands on me–but Blink makes it 50x easier.
On Spine I am dutifully spamming Arcane Blast when the trade window pops open and someone puts the helm token inside. Wha-? Is this a trade for the chestpiece? They can have it. Then the other person competes his part, so I complete the trade.
Then get a whisper: I got this by accident. Enjoy.
It really did make up for the part on spine where the new tank was warned not to take a healthy amalgamation through the bloods and then proceeded to pick up 9 stacks immediately. It was deadly, though the pretty mage once again lived.
After that it was Deathwing. Another surprising one shot with an amusing 3 tentacle swords dropping at the end. Because I am not a whore, I pass on all the loot before I drop.
Time to turn in my tokens! With new loot, that means new gems and enchants. It also means I have to re-mog. I went back to the white robe, even though it looks like a priest outfit. Ah well, that's the beauty of mogging, I can change my look whenever I want.
It's good to be pretty.


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Unsanitary bronchoscopes could cause infection
On Behalf of Clark, Love & Hutson | Jul 23, 2021 | Defective Medical Device Litigation |
When a person in Houston has a health issue involving their throat, larynx, trachea or lower airways their physician may use a bronchoscope to evaluate their condition. However, according to one report, these devices are difficult to clean and could cause patients to suffer worsened medical conditions.
What is the scope of the problem?
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, unsanitary reusable flexible bronchoscopes can cause infections. From January 2010 to June 25 the agency received 109 reports regarding infection or contamination involving reusable flexible bronchoscopes. From July 2015 to January 2021, the agency received 867 further reports of infection or contamination involving reusable flexible bronchoscopes. Seven of these incidents resulted in fatalities.
What are some causes of these problems?
The failure to follow the manufacturer's direction on using the device, including maintenance and mechanical issues led to some of these problems. Specific microorganisms led to infections and fatalities, particularly if patient comorbities were an issue. However, the FDA notes that it is not entirely possible to reach a definitive determination of the cause of these fatalities.
What has been the FDA's response?
The FDA has ordered manufacturers of these instruments to conduct postmarket surveillance studies with regards to whether these devices, which are difficult to clean, can be reused in clinical settings. The FDA has also approved two endoscopes that have the potential to reduce contamination issues.
Learn more about medical products liability
Unfortunately, this information may come too little too late for those who have already been harmed by faulty medical products. When this happens, patients will want to make sure they understand all their rights and options. Our firm's webpage on defective medical devices may be a good starting point for those who want to learn more about this topic.


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