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Review: 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' gives us the Latinx heroine we need right now
Madeleine Madden, Isabela Moner, Jeff Wahlberg and Nicholas Coombe star in "Dora and the Lost City of Gold."
(Vince Valitutti / Paramount Pictures)
Beloved cartoon character becomes a winning 21st-century heroine in this perky action-adventure flick
These days, there's no intellectual property that hasn't been mined for a big-budget, live-action Hollywood remake. But the adaptation of the popular educational kiddie cartoon "Dora the Explorer" into the summer-friendly romp "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" is a no-brainer.
The beloved character of Dora, with whom Gen Z grew up, becomes a winning 21st-century heroine in this perky action-adventure flick that pulls heavily from the "Indiana Jones" movies and other kid-friendly action-adventure classics.
To adapt the interactive kiddie show into something a bit more sophisticated to appeal to the preteen set who are no longer the preschool set, director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller (who cut their teeth in comedy and worked on 2011's "The Muppets") have brought a healthy dose of irony to the format. Their leading lady, Isabela Moner, proves to be more than up to the challenge of walking the fine line between sincere and silly in her performance.
"Can you say 'neurotoxicity'?" she asks the audience in one of Dora's signature direct addresses to the camera, with a wide-eyed and slightly manic enthusiasm that lets us know we're all in on the joke.
Dora falls into that grand cinematic tradition of brave naïfs who embark on big adventures (see: Herman, Pee-wee). Dora has been brought up in the jungle by her professor parents (Eva Longoria and Michael Peña), and she knows everything about her surroundings. She just doesn't know much about other people.
Her parents ship her off to "the city" to live with her aunt, uncle and cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg) to study the indigenous culture of American high schools and pick up some social skills while they go off in search of Parapata, an ancient Incan city of gold.
The happy, open, completely guileless Dora might be able to survive the elements but it's questionable whether she'll survive high school. Diego is embarrassed by her, queen bee Sammy (Madeleine Madden) is threatened by her, and the school nerd (Nicholas Coombe) is enamored of her.
The quartet gets separated from the pack on a field trip, then kidnapped to South America by a group of bounty hunters hoping to use Dora to find her parents and swoop in on the treasure. Alejandro (Eugenio Derbez), an academic friend of Dora's parents, rescues the kids, and they make a break for it into the jungle.
Moner's layered comedic performance, which at once nods at the "Dora" formula while acknowledging the conceit, is deceptively difficult and nuanced. She cheerily sings songs about doing your business in the jungle while brandishing a shovel and breathlessly offers up fun facts. She's delightfully dorky, a rare commodity in this day and age of sarcastic, wise-beyond-their-years teens.
In contrast, Derbez's slapsticky style is practically vaudevillian, or even rodeo clownish, as he pulls faces and subjects his body to humiliation. It's a jarring performance generation gap.
The action in this live-action adaptation is sanded down and decidedly safe. Bobin loses the geographical thread in the film's climax in and around Parapata — but it's never about the visual thrills, it's about the girl at the center of it all.
When Dora explains they're not treasure hunters but explorers there to learn, the jungle puzzle all clicks into place. Dora, with her backpack, sunny outlook and multicultural perspective, is truly the hero we need for this century.
'Dora and the Lost City of Gold'
Rating: PG for action and some impolite humor
When: Opens Friday
Where: Wide release
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
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Operating a forklift can be very dangerous, but it doesn't have to be with proper training and knowledge of the machine being operated. Some of the risks of operating a forklift are crushing, explosions, falls, dropping heavy loads, and collisions. Many of these dangerous accidents can be avoided with proper training, however.
Imagine, for example, a forklift operator is driving a forklift with a LP Gas tank sitting in the operator area and not the designated tank area with steel straps. The LP Gas tank becomes a very dangerous hazard to the operator and anyone in the vicinity when that tank is not secured in its designated location. When a forklift operator has been trained to understand these major hazards, he or she will know to only place LP Gas tanks where they are meant to be.
Forklift certification is fairly simple and not a lengthy process. But it is required by law. Read below about what it takes to be a certified forklift operator.
OSHA law requires that a forklift operator be at least 18 years old.
A motor vehicle license or driver's license that you would get to operate a car on public roads is not required.
All forklift operators must be trained and certified in addition to being 18 years old.
The first step in becoming a certified forklift operator is passing a test that proves you understand OSHA rules. You can take this test online, through a training course at a forklift dealership, or in a class that your employer provides. A certificate of completion is typically presented when the test is passed.
The second step is proving your ability to drive a forklift in a controlled environment. Again, this can be completed at such places as a forklift dealership, a forklift rental store, or at your employer.
When you have passed the OSHA test and demonstrated the safe operation of the forklift you will be operating on a regular basis, you will be presented with a wallet card that certifies you as a lift truck operator.
Does My Forklift Operator Card Expire?
Yes. You must be re-certified every 3 years by demonstrating your ability to safely operate a forklift.
Certification as a forklift operator in one US state is certification for any state, Canada, and any other country that use OSHA standards.
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Commission on Mo. Senate redistricting facing deadline next week
By Marshall Griffin • Aug 8, 2011
The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City.
Marshall Griffin | St. Louis Public Radio
The commission to redraw State Senate district boundaries in Missouri has given itself one more week to agree on a new map, or else it will hand over the responsibility to a panel of state judges.
The biggest dispute remaining is over how to redraw St. Louis County's State Senate districts, according to commission chair Doug Harpool.
"There's some population shifts (that) are going to make it difficult to keep all of the present senators in (their) districts," Harpool said. "It may well be that some of them end up having to live in the same district."
Disputes over how to divide St. Louis city, though, appear to be resolved.
"In the city, both maps are pretty similar now, and they use the north-south border, which would split to an east and a west district, which is pretty similar to what it is today," Harpool said.
There's also a dispute over whether to include Jefferson County with either St. Louis or with Ste. Genevieve counties – and there are disagreements on where to redraw lines near Columbia, Kansas City, and the Missouri Bootheel.
The legal deadline to agree on a State Senate map is August 18th; however, the Senate Reapportionment Commission has given itself until August 16th to produce a map.
Missouri Senate
Doug Harpool
Reapportionment Commission
St. Louis area senators raise concerns about redistricting maps
By Rachel Lippmann • May 25, 2011
(Marshall Griffin/St. Louis Public Radio)
The two state Senators who represent the bulk of St. Louis city are continuing to express concerns about a proposed state legislative district map that splits the city into a northern and southern half.
The city is currently divided along a line that travels roughly along Grand Avenue. That, says Democratic state Senator Robin Wright-Jones, makes both the districts very diverse.
The proposed map, she says, resets 40 years of battling racial divisions.
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Would be US President, Donald Trump is known for making some sensational statements and once again he is in news for making comments over computer privacy. Donald Trump stated during the new year bash, that no computer is safe in the world as there is serious risk of theft of privacy. Instead, Trump expressed to use the old fashioned courier, if something is very important. Bithiri Sathi of Teenmaar News has taken potshots at this statement of Donald Trump. Watch the Teenmaar News.


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The company was founded in 1996 in Amsterdam Jechiam Gural and Naftalie Hershler.
The first years we were building various web-based platforms but from 2001 our development fully focused on software for the distribution of video on the Internet.
We were awarded a 3 year contract to build the SurfNET video portal, at that time the first centrally organized system to manage and publish video in higher education in the Netherlands.
We were the technical partner in the 'Birth of TV' project, a 3 year European Commission initiative to create an online knowledge database on the history of European Television.
We developed a webcasting service for the broadcasting of governance meetings. BestuurOnline has been awarded the Europrix.nl category prize 2004 "Citizens, E-government and Democracy".
We won a 3 years contract for the webcasting of 21 congresses on sustainable energy in different member states of the European Union. The contract was awarded by Managenergy, a department of the European Commission.
For the Dutch Film and TV Academy, we built a Video Based E-learning system covering the complete multimedia workflow, management and multimedia e-learning environment.
We delivered the WebTV services for the Video Active video portal, a 3 year project focusing on publishing the early archives of the national TV broadcasters in the different European member states.
Together with the Digital University we built a video learning system called DIVIDU. It was used for over 5 years by more than 40.000 students from different educational institutions in the Netherlands.
2006 heralded the first release of Springfield. Springfield is an open-source WebTV framework that still is at the core of all our current project implementations.
We became partners in the European multimedia project MESH, an FP6 program aimed at the application of multimedia analysis and the production of advanced personalized multimedia summaries.
Soon after the release of Springfield we developed Smithers, an important WebTV service that is used in all our projects for the storage of time-based, video-related metadata.
We won the 3 year contract to conduct the 'Levende Herinneringen' project, that records valuable memories of the ways in which Dutch and Indonesian cultures became intertwined during the colonization period.
We won a 2 year contract to develop the 'HouseMovie' video portal and create an interactive video player to navigate through the real-estate objects for sale on the portal.
In line with the growing need for online users to identify and use specific fragments of an online video collection, we developed a generic tagging tool for labeling specific video fragments.
We developed a viral video-player aimed at delivering live broadcasts as well as easily sharing videos on Facebook, Myspace and Hyves (Dutch social media platform).
We started providing WebTV services to Kluwer for use in 'Creatie', a platform containing a database with marketing campaigns.
For Rabobank, we developed a knowledge sharing platform with recordings of several internal dissemination sessions covering the use of new media in customer relations.
Noterik won a 3 years contract for the transcoding and online distribution of video for AT5, the local television station of Amsterdam.
Noterik introduced MyVidayo, a platform for the creation of personalized videos.
For the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, we developed a WebTV system that facilitates the process of annotating more than 2000 interviews of the Shoah collection.
With the help of our WebTV services the EUscreen portal experienced a rapid 3 year growth to become the largest audiovisual archive on European Television with a collection of more than 40.000 items.
In 2009 we sponsored the Hacking at Random conference by webcasting their key speakers, which included Julian Assange presenting his Wikileaks platform (at that time still being able to go where he wanted).
We delivered the first version of our online video editing tool. This tool allows for basic trimming, cutting and playlist creation of online video material.
Together with our partner Submarine we created an interactive video player that allows for sending a personal Valentines message to a friend.
We started our long-term cooperation with 'Schouten en Nelissen', delivering the WebTV services that are used within their E-Learning system MijnSN.
We became the WebTV provider in the CroMe project, a 3 year project that collects and annotates around 500 video interviews on war experiences in Croatia.
In 2011 we became the WebTV provider for the 'LinkedTV' research project. The project focuses on the way materials sourced from the Internet can be used for the enrichment of Television.
We became the WebTV provider in the BiHme project, a 2 year project that collects and annotates around 100 video interviews on war experiences in Bosnia.
We finalized the first version of our Story Telling Tool. This tool is used within the EUscreen project and is shortlisted for the FIAT/IFTA 2013 awards in the category 'best reuse of archives'.
We released the first version of our Multiscreen Toolkit, allowing quick prototyping of video applications that need to facilitate touch-screen interaction of multiple users over multiple devices.
We provide DANS with WebTV services such as access to specific parts of videos (Conditional Acces Streaming), Screenshot Extraction, Time-based Filesystem and advanced search API.
Noterik joined the Europeana Space project aimed at increasing the use of digital cultural Europeana content. Noterik is proud to be part of the Europeana TV pilot where our Multiscreen Toolkit will be used to develop HbbTV applications.
After many years on Prins Hendrikkade, Noterik moves to... Prins Hendrikkade. 500m further towards Nemo in a monumental building with roots in Dutch shipping history. The first stone of the building was placed on May 4th in 1878 by His Majesty King William III.
We partnered up with Impact to develop a prototype of an E-Coaching system, an innovative methodology directed at changing the behaviour of juvenile offenders. It uses an advanced system to send automated text and video messages to their mobile phones.
Noterik presented the new version responsive version of the EUscreen portal. The portal became HTML5 ready so the media from several European broadcasters and audiovisual archives in Europe now also works on tablets and phones.
We became partner in Mecanex, a new European project that uses advanced annotation tools to enrich media collections and publish them in multiscreen environments.
For the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, we released a system that supports an automatic workflow of both video and measurement data into a synchronised visualisation that can be viewed directly after testing, done from a computer within the institute.
Noterik acted as technical partner in the Hacking Culture Bootcamp at historic venue De Waag, and rapidly developed working prototypes powered by our Multiscreen Toolkit for three of the teams.
After four years of hard work, the LinkedTV project that Noterik proudly partcipated in was concluded with a review by the European Commission that resulted in an 'excellent' rating for the project.
For the EUscreen portal, featuring over 60.000 film and television clips, photos, audio recordings and documents from archives across Europe, Noterik developed 'MyEUscreen', allowing users to bookmark their favourite EUscreen items and create their own publications.
At the Photography Hackathon in Leuven we used QANDR (our new multiscreen tool that spices up presentations by allowing an audience to interact with the main screen using their mobile phones) to develop a prototype for an educational application.
The EUscreen project came to an end with another outstanding rating, 'good allbeit not far from excellent' this time. Noterik keeps hosting the EUscreen collection as part of its ongoing support of the newly founded EUscreen Foundation.
Our multiscreen user engagement product QANDR matured, allowing it to be used in actual courses at MODUL university in Vienna.
The latest incarnation of our multiscreen technology, MuPop (the Popup Museum) was used in two installations. The Sound & Vision exhibition in Hilversum focussed on fashion, whereas in Leuven two photographic Belle Epoque exhibitions were shown.
More than just a presentation tool, QANDR proved to be well suited to focus group meetings in qualitative research. It allows the moderator to accommodate a wider range of opinions and makes proceedings more playful. People are more evenly given a chance to speak.
QANDR was succesfully used in a debate on the Dutch elections for parliament. The discussion leaders used our tool in several ways to create interaction with the audience of ninety.
The large three year Europeana Space project was assessed by EC reviewers as 'exceeding expectations'. Not in the least due to the massive effort by Noterik in the last six months of the project to create a cross-disicpline app: the Popup Museum.


When you travel in Italy you expect to feel the presence of the Roman Catholic church. Churches on every corner- Cathedrals marking the center of town in almost every city, bell towers keeping time and marking important holidays like the heartbeat of the communities. Religious art is everywhere, telling the stories of the Bible and serving as visual tools to educate the masses on religion, and the glorify and bless the wealthy families who would commission the artwork itself. Catholicism is everywhere in Italy.
However sometimes, if you are lucky, you catch a glimpse into the story that came before Christianity in this beautiful country. Paganism, Druidic rites, Celtic Pantheons, all of these elements wove their way through the various city-sates and communities of pre-Christian Italy. When the Romans decided to propagate Christianty, the Church overlaid a lot of existing Pagan celebrations with the Christian calendar. This made the religious transition easier to enforce, and allowed the people to keep their traditions alive in their communities. Very sneaky.
We came across just one such tradition last night- the "Foccaracce" or "Fugaracce", which is the burning of massive amounts of dried olive trimmings on the night of December 8, in honor of the The Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We asked the locals about why this is done, and they pointed to the nearby shrine to Mary and said it was in order to "riscaldare" the Virgin Mary. To warm her up during the long cold winter months. In reality, we know this is an ancient Pagan tradition which was overlaid with these Christian tones- a celebration after the final harvests, and a fire to purify the spirits of the people and ready them for the annual cycle to begin again.
I love discovering these stories hidden underneath. Christianity is everywhere in Italy, kind of like Pizza. But when you find some truth underneath all the noise, you end up with something really great, historically significant, interesting and impact, and truly worthwhile. You have to search for these things in Italy- ask questions, be curious and open-minded. You'll be rewarded in the end.
A truly worthwhile slice of pizza: La Sorgente Pizzeria.
Liver sausage, wild Chicory, dehydrated peppers, orange peel. Go here. Trust me! This place is proof there can be Truth in Pizza too!
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Before I begin teaching a new dog any exercise I need a picture in my mind of the end result I am hoping to achieve. This will enable me to plan the dog's training to include all the aspects that I desire. Offering to be a search steward at a trial is a wonderful way to learn what you do like. A few days spent watching all the attributes of dogs that do well in the square and handlers who get the best out of their dog should motivate you and fire your enthusiasm. You may also see some things that you dislike – make a mental note to avoid these and plan your training sessions to ensure you are not allowing unwanted traits to develop. When you know what you want, you are ready to begin training.
Dog to recognise the square and enthusiastically search within it.
Dog to be enthusiastic to find articles.
Dog to understand that the articles are within that square.
Dog to pick up any article in the square immediately on locating it without further encouragement.
Dog to deliver article cleanly to hand without mouthing or dropping.
Dog to be keen to return to square to find another article.
When I first started in trials a long time ago I was shown how to teach the square by tying the dog to the fence, placing four poles in the ground to form a 15 yard square and shake out a large bag of assorted toys and articles and then allowing the dog to go and find and return some of them. It is easy to expect a dog to do a whole exercise with very little training but, unfortunately this practise allows and encourages many faults.
Dog noisy and overstimulated, but without a sound knowledge of the exercise.
Dog rushing out to find article, but playing with it not returning it.
Dog rejecting article to find something nicer.
Slow return, mouthing and playing with article.
Dog reluctant to surrender article.
Many years ago I attended a working trials training course run by Tony Lockyer. We were given four poles each and told to keep our dogs with us while we placed the poles just four paces apart. Four paces apart! Wow what good sense: the dogs were shown the relevance of the poles in such a simple way right from the start. The notion of pole awareness inspired me to make some changes to what I was doing with my dog. Thank you Tony.
These days I teach pole awareness even before my dog is ready to fetch articles in an acceptable manner. To do this I have my dog on lead and a pocketful of bite-sized titbits in my pocket, I place my poles to make a small square with four paces between them and then, standing in the centre of my small square I hold my dog back but allow him to watch as I deposit one titbit at the base of each pole (avoid the temptation to say "leave" instead if you must talk, you could say "Yummy food"). I then release him and allow him to find and eat the titbits, as he does this I discreetly reload the base of each pole with another titbit so he keeps going round finding a treat at the base of every pole. After he has had 8 – 10 treats I catch hold of his collar praise him and clip his lead back on. I allow him to watch again as I reload every pole with a treat and pull him out to one side of the small square (down-wind) and once more release him to help himself to the titbits. Some dogs will realise instantly that there is food at the base of the poles but others seem to think, at first, that there is food all over the field and they run all around hunting for it. I repeat the above actions until my dog knows the game; he will stop covering the field and will run around checking the base of each pole as soon as I release him. He is now ready to be told what game he is playing. I name this game 'squares' and from now on I say this word before loading the poles with treats. I continue to release him and allow him to check the poles to find his rewards. After several sessions of this I will leave my dog in the car and place my poles still only four paces apart in a small square, add a treat to the base of each and then get my dog from the car. I will then point to the poles and tell him 'squares' and release him to find his treats. We now have a 'set-up' that will inform the dog what exercise we are about to do, it will focus his mind on the poles and he will be ready to start to search (albeit for food at this stage).
I do not want my dog rushing off out of control to sniff at every pole he sees in the hope there might be a titbit near it as this would create a problem. Imagine being half way around your track at a trial and your dog notices the square being laid, or simply a marker pole the track layers have used to divide the field. Or your dog might spot a pole on the control field and wonder if there is a treat nearby. He must learn that the poles only have hidden rewards when I say the word 'squares'.
Dogs use 'discriminative stimuli' in daily life to help them make sense of the world. For example; if you pick up your car keys your dog may be alerted that something is about to happen; if you then put on your wellingtons, your dog may become excited in anticipation of a walk; however if you pick up your keys and then put on your smart shoes he will sulk off to bed, knowing you are going to work. So keys plus wellingtons equal walk, keys plus shoes equal being left alone.
We need the dog to learn that a pole in the field does not mean food, unless you say 'squares'. To achieve this you will need to be very consistent at this stage in his training. He must learn that if you do not point at a set of four poles and say "squares" there will be no reward. Get in the habit of placing poles about your training areas, simply to ignore them. If your dog rushes off to check them out, just let him go! There is no need to reprimand him, he will soon learn there is no point in this behaviour and it will extinguish – he will stop doing it.
Gradually, I will extend the size of the square and place titbits at varying distances from the poles (within the square not around the poles) so my dog learns to search the area within the four poles to find treats. So by the time it is up to 15 yards square there may be as many as 16 treats within that square; i.e. an average of four treats near(ish) to each of the four poles. At this stage I will expect my dog to whizz around inside the square keeping an eye on the poles for direction whilst he gathers rewards without any help – or discipline from me.
Now I have achieved the first requirement on my wish list without any retrieve at all and therefore no need whatsoever to chastise my dog for anything. He is now keen to search the square.
N.B. if your dog is already working squares and you expect to compete in the near future I would not recommend the above training as your dog could well stop picking up articles altogether and look for treats! This is stage one of training procedure that takes many months to complete – it is not a quick fix remedy!


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Orthopaedics is the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints. There are many Orthopaedics Hospitals in India that deals with critical patients having problem with their bones and joints.
There are some Orthopaedics Hospitals that not only deal with curing disease but also involve in research activities to prevent the disease. Some of these Orthopaedics Hospitals have sophisticated equipment and to do calibrated tests and perform pin point surgery.
These Hospitals promise to serve people to recover fast from their bone and joints related ailments. Here is a list of Orthopaedics Hospitals in India for the patient to choose who may like to have bone and joint related treatment.


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Guerlédan – gmina we Francji, w regionie Bretania, w departamencie Côtes-d'Armor. W 2013 roku populacja ludności wynosiła 2602 mieszkańców.

Gmina została utworzona 1 stycznia 2017 roku z połączenia dwóch ówczesnych gmin: Mûr-de-Bretagne oraz Saint-Guen. Siedzibą gminy została miejscowość Mûr-de-Bretagne.

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Each year ICAD undertakes to foster new talent with a free training programme known as the 'Upstarts'. The ICAD Upstarts Programme 2008 in association with NNI took place over a period of 6 weeks. There were 24 places available and there were more than 100 applications.
Details of the 2009 Upstarts Programme will be announced in April. Click here if you would like to receive e-mail updates.
Participants work on a brief each week and then present their ideas at a workshop each monday night. These workshops are hosted by the Advertising Agency or Design Studio that set that weeks brief. Over the course of the programme participants get to improve their portfolios as well as meet lots of top creative people. It also ends with an exhibition as part of Design week.
A big thank you to all involved and especially to the National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI).


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    let(:relationship) { follower.relationships.build(followed_id: followed.id) }

    subject { relationship }

    it { should be_valid }

    describe "follower methods" do
        it { should respond_to(:follower) }
        it { should respond_to(:followed) }
        its(:follower) { should eq follower }
        its(:followed) { should eq followed }
    end

    describe "when followed id is not present" do
        before { relationship.followed_id = nil }
        it { should_not be_valid }
    end

    describe "when follower id is not present" do
        before { relationship.follower_id = nil }
        it { should_not be_valid }
    end
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People: Jacob Wright Makes Homecoming After 8 Years as He Rejoins BBH Singapore as New Chief Strategy Officer
SINGAPORE – The former Engagement Planning Director of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) in London and Singapore, Jacob Wright returns to the company as BBH Singapore's Chief Strategy Officer.
Prior to returning, Wright was the social media director at Droga5. He also served in senior strategy roles in the UK namely Head of Planning of VCCP Limited content and social division, Strategy Director for Mother, and also a working client side for two tech start-ups.
Wright expressed his excitement in joining the BBH headquarters, "This is a homecoming for me. BBH Singapore has gone from strength to strength creating work that's making waves globally. There's a team here that's unique not just in the region, but in the world and I'm excited to be a part of that."
According to John Hadfield, CEO of BBH Singapore, Wright will be in charge of the full breadth of strategic offers from the agency. "I am really excited to be welcoming Jacob back to BBH, he was an excellent planner when he left us eight years ago, and he's since been able to add new experience and some deep specialist understanding that will be invaluable to the agency and to our clients," he said.
A true creative mind in the industry with excellent social media and tech skills to match, Wright has set the foundation for various award winning campaigns for brands like Uniqlo, IKEA, and Coca Cola.
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Ex-Kasowitz Partner Pitcock on Patent Suit Against Google, Facebook
Former Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman partner Jeremy Pitcock is back in the news -- and this time it's for his role as a litigator, not a litigant. Pitcock filed a patent infringement lawsuit Monday in Manhattan federal court on behalf of his client Wireless Ink against Google and Facebook, alleging that the Facebook Mobile application and Google Buzz infringe on one of Wireless Ink's patents.
By Drew Combs | March 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Former Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman partner Jeremy Pitcock is back in the news — and this time it's for his role as a litigator, not a litigant.


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Political Revolution Flips 2 Republican Senators Against EdSec Betsy DeVos
Dismissed by Hillary Clinton and her campaign as pie-in-the-sky delusion, Bernie Sanders' strategy of political revolution — inspiring millions of working people to stand up and fight by getting involved in the political process — is yielding results in the struggle to defeat President Trump's disastrous pick to head the Department of Education, Betsy Devos.
As Yahoo News reports:
Matt House, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate had been flooded with an average of 1.5 million calls each day this week. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted that the call volume broke all previous Senate records. A staffer for Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., told a reporter that he received 80,000 letters from constituents about DeVos' confirmation alone. The senator's total correspondence was up 900% compared to the year before, he said.
The unusual flood of calls, emails and letters reflect the amount of emotion and anger surrounding President Trump's pick.
"What we really see is that this has really touched a nerve in the hearts and minds of not just educators but parents, grandparents and community members," said Mary Kusler, the director of government relations for the National Education Association teachers union.
The campaign has yielded results. Two Republican senators, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, defected from the caucus earlier this week, in a surprising repudiation of the White House. Murkowski said she had heard from "thousands" of Alaskans who opposed the nominee. She further told Yahoo News that she couldn't live in fear of the president's Twitter attacks.
Activists then turned their sights on Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., who are both up for reelection in 2018 in states that trended more blue in 2016. Both men have said they will vote for DeVos, but constituents kept calling anyway. Heller tweeted Thursday that constituents were having trouble getting through to his office line.
With those two Republican defections, DeVos' confirmation vote is now split 50–50. That means that Vice President Mike Pence will have to come to the Senate floor to break the tie. (Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has been abstaining from nomination votes as he's under consideration for attorney general, will also have to come to the floor to vote.) If Pence is called in, it would be the first time in Senate history that a vice president has had to cast the tie-breaking vote for a president's Cabinet nominee.
Political revolution is the only way to stop the Trump-Bannon Alt-Right onslaught and political revolution can take many forms: organizing people to hound their elected representatives, strikes and general strikes, mounting serious primary challenges against figures like Corey Booker, and grassroots protests like we saw at airports all over the country in response to Trump's inane travel ban.
Trump doesn't know who Frederick Douglas is but some of the things the famous abolitionist said have never been more relevant than they are now:
▪ "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
▪ "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
▪ "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
▪ "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
▪ "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
▪ "At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
▪ "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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Last week I participated in a program training at work that included cooking activities. We cooked six recipes (which were all fabulous), one of which was a stand-out carrot muffin recipe. The purpose of the recipe was to integrate a vegetable into sweet tasty treat without minimizing the sweet tasty treat part of it. These muffins were up to the task.
I spent a whole day longing over the memory of that muffin until I finally broke down and made them. Sadly at that point I had a cold and couldn't really taste them, but I can only hope they were as good as I remember.
Makes 12 muffins. Estimated time: 34-40 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly spray a muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Wash carrots and shred in food processor or with grater.
In medium bowl, whisk together eggs and maple syrup. Stir in shredded carrots, orange juice, raisins and vegetable oil.
In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Slowly add the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture. Mix just until the dry ingredients are moistened. It is important to not over mix.
Spoon muffin batter into muffin tin and bake for around 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted into center of muffin.
Allow muffins to cool before serving.
This was my first time using white whole wheat flour, and I am pleasantly impressed. I knew that white whole wheat flour was a good option for folks who aren't especially enamored with traditional whole wheat, but I hadn't thought about its possibilities in recipes where whole wheat doesn't work quite as well (desserts, light breads). I'm impressed, and I'll be using this again.
The recipe calls for more oil than I'm really happy with using, so next time I'll try substituting half or more with applesauce. I made the recipe as written this time (as instructed by my husband who believes that recipes are made to be followed, whereas I tend to be of the opinion that I can make a recipe work even if I'm missing five ingredients), but next time I'll experiment with the fat content.
I used a food processor to shred the carrots, and it made quick work of that step.
I'm not much of a raisin person (except in trail mix), but adding golden raisins to this recipe adds a little chewiness without being perceptibly a raisin. It's not bad.
It was with this recipe that I got to experience my first rotten egg. The eggs we had in the fridge were laid in July, so I knew there was a chance they might not be good anymore, but I went for it. I doubled the recipe, so on the last of the four eggs to be cracked for this recipe, I found myself dripping rotten egg into my otherwise lovely three eggs. Yuck. Thankfully I had exactly four eggs left over and none of them were bad, so I was able to finish the recipe. And now I know what a rotten egg looks like.
I use an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into the muffin pan. (Thank you, Paula Deen.) It makes it super easy, provided you rinse out the scoop afterwards so it doesn't get crusty.
That's it. Try this recipe! It's surprisingly good.
Edited to add: A reader on Facebook suggested calling the recipe "Golden Carrot Muffins" because of the colour and the use of liquid gold: maple syrup. I think this is a great idea, so I added it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Sorry, to clarify, by "normal" flour I mean plain whole wheat – I almost never use plain white!
Awesome! I'm so glad they turned out for you.
I sub'd chopped, dried apricots for the raisins and added a handful of chocolate chips, a handful of ground flax. Delicious!
Interesting! I'm glad you liked them.


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Giants Review: Mac Williamson's Concussion Cut Short Potential Breakout
By Alex Pavlovic	• Published October 8, 2018 • Updated on October 31, 2018 at 5:18 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - There was an odd thing about all the major injuries the 2018 Giants suffered. Most organizations watch pitcher after pitcher go down, and the Giants certainly took some blows there. But for the most part, the biggest hits came to the lineup.
The result was a September lineup card that included just about every position player on the 40-man roster.
This morning, we looked at the pitchers who are on the 40-man roster but didn't join the team - for various reasons - in September. When you do the same with position players, you're left with just two: Miguel Gomez and Mac Williamson. Gomez didn't do enough on the field to warrant a promotion. Williamson likely would have been the Giants' starting left fielder the whole second half, but he was shut down with a concussion.
Here's a breakdown of two Giants prospects with uncertain futures.
What went right
Gomez, 25, was once viewed as a Baby Panda. He's an aggressive switch-hitter with serious bat-to-ball skills, and at the very least it looked like he would carve out a role as a nice pinch-hit option for Bruce Bochy. We'll get to the issues in a moment. The good news here is that he posted a .313/.333/.479 slash line in Double-A, and even though his overall numbers in Triple-A were poor, he did manage to bat .273.
Williamson looked like a breakout star all spring after overhauling his swing in the offseason. The work with Doug Latta nearly put him on the roster on Opening Day, and after posting a 1.626 OPS (yes, that's correct) in his first 11 Triple-A games, he forced his way up. Williamson homered in three of six big league games before getting hurt.
The Giants had 13 balls hit with an exit velocity of 110 mph or above, and Williamson had three of them in limited time. He had the hardest-hit (114.2 mph) homer of the year by a Giant. There is power here that is just about unmatched in the organization.
The Giants believe Gomez is a man without a position, and he doesn't hit enough to make that work. He had six homers and drew just nine walks in 423 at-bats across two minor league levels. In the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, he posted a .648 OPS.
For Williamson, the main thing that went wrong in 2018 involved a two-decades-old decision to put the bullpen mounds along the left field line at AT&T Park. He went down hard on April 24 and suffered a concussion, and the hot streak was over when he returned.
Williamson had a .571 OPS and just one homer in 23 games, and after similar issues in the minors, he was shut down and sent for further evaluation. The concussion symptoms had been there all along, and Williamson didn't play after Aug. 7.
Neither player is arbitration eligible. Gomez has one option remaining. Williamson is out of options.
The emergence of Alen Hanson and Abiatal Avelino could end Gomez's time on the 40-man roster. The Giants feel pretty comfortable with their depth at second base.
The Williamson decision is fascinating. Before he tumbled over a bullpen mound, he looked poised to break out and possibly grab the left field job for good. It's possible the Giants will look at Williamson, Austin Slater and Chris Shaw, and decide that one way or another, they'll go young in left field next season. In that case, a healthy Williamson could start the season in the lineup. It's also possible that the front office will be scared off by his concussion and acquire a player who again blocks the path to playing time.
Williamson waited a long time for his shot at an everyday job. The hope is that one injury didn't take that away from him.


In the table it says Lingala twice, I guess the second one should be Luganda (lg.wikipedia).
Thanks Jan, fixed, and in the text too.
Hi Ian, thanks for your continuous look at African language wikipedias.
I agree with you that Afrikaans is indeed the best quality among these.
But to look at only article numbers can be very misleading as many have learned since Waraywaray passed a million articles. According to the story I remember, this guy from Sweden wanted to honour the language of his wife from the Philippines – and knew how to write programs that translate certain types of easily translatable short entries from English.No idea if that stuff is readable. A huge wikipedia. Is it a "success"?
For evaluation I propose to go for a mix of indicators. Article number is for very small wikipedias a good indicator.
Beyond say 10,000 we should also look for some quality indicators.
Here Afrikaans is at 22/100, Swahili at 17/100 and all others down at 7/100 and less.
Afrikaans at 27%, Swahili at 17%, Malagasy here better at 14%, the rest down below 10% of reachable points.
Pageview numbers are important (who reads the stuff??) but difficult to compare because of the numbers of speakers vary so much between languages. I propose to look for the market share in the "home country" (Like Afrikaans/South Africa, Swahiili/Tanzania-Kenya, Amharic – Ethiopia), using https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm. These figures are statistically perhaps not sooo strong for some countries (because of relatively small view numbers over all). It is also possible to look at the readership of a language by checking "Pageviews per language" https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm showing the countries where requests come from. Many smaller African language versions have their readers abroad, in USA or Europe (the homesick African student? Exception; Igbo!).
Interestingly but not surprisingly no African language wikipedia has more than 10% share of overall wikipedia views in the "home country". Top are Somali in Somalia (very weak database) and Swahili for Tanzania with 8-9 %, the large majority reads English wikipedia. Afrikaans reaches less than 2% in South Africa wikipedia lookups, Amharic gets 4% in Ethiopia. Yoruba is not visible in Nigeria wikipedia lookups, all its readers seem to be abroad, same for Malagasy in Madagascar..
I try to balance that with a check using the langviews analysis tool at https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=ig.wikipedia.org.
I go for some locations which will probably not be searched a lot from outside the country. (Not for Cape Town, not for Dar es Salaam, as these are sought from all over the world. I assume that small places will be looked up rather by people inside the country). I get a comparison of language searchs for the entry if it is connected to wikidata. My random check shows a surprisingly strong position of Swahili in the interlanguage search compared to English.
This very tentative comparison puts Swahili in a stronger position even compared to Afrikaans!
Ok, this just as some indicators for ways to look for quality. Because just quantity should not be the decisive factor when looking where to invest energy and time.
At our last Wikimedia ZA AGM, Deon Styne mentioned something I thought was important. Doing radio interviews, after all who and where are the people who could be potential contributors to the small language Wikipedias?
And the answer is simple, the contributors to these small languages Wikipedias are listeners of these radio stations and they speak those languages but they might not be aware that they can read Wikipedia in their mother tongue let alone do Wikipedia entries on their mother tongue themselves!
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Within the past decade in Argentina, 160,000 families of small farmers have left the land, unable to compete with large farmers. GM soya has served to exacerbate this trend towards large-scale, industrial agriculture, accelerating poverty. Roundup Ready (RR) soya clearly requires more, not less, herbicide than conventional soya. In 2001, more than 9.1 million kg of extra herbicide was used with GM soya compared with non-GM. The use of glyphosate (Roundup) doubled from 28 million liters in the period 1997-98 to 56 million liters in 1998-1999, and reached 100 million in the last (2002) season. RR soya crops also yield 5% to 10% less compared with the non-GM varieties grown under similar soil conditions. Scientists at the University of Arkansas showed that root development, nodule formation and nitrogen fixation worsened in some varieties of RR soya. These effects are exacerbated under strong drought conditions or in relatively infertile fields because the symbiotic bacterium responsible for fixing nitrogen in soya is very sensitive to drought and to Roundup.
Argentina started to transform its economy to an export-led focus on soya when it had to pay back foreign debt with money gained through export commodities. During the last quarter century, soybean production increased at an unprecedented rate, from an area of 38,000 hectares in 1970 to approximately 13 million hectares today. Around 70% of the soybean harvest is converted into oil, most of which is exported, providing 81% of the world's exported soya oil and 36% of soybean meal.
Argentina started to transform its economy to an export-led focus on soya when it had to pay back foreign debt with money gained through export commodities.
Practically all of the 13 million hectares of soya crop are GM, in particular RR soya. Argentina is currently the second biggest producer of GM soya in the world. The countryside has been transformed from traditional mixed and rotation farming, which secured soil fertility and minimized the use of pesticides, to almost entirely GM soya.
Financial problems for farmers are set to worsen with Monsanto now starting to charge royalties for their seeds, where before it was allowing farm-saved seeds. Twenty-four million acres of land belonging to bankrupted small farmers are about to be auctioned by the banks.
With an increase in poverty, a glut in soya, and a deficit of other agricultural products, the government began to promote soya as a healthy alternative to traditional foodstuffs such as meat and milk. A campaign, Soja Solidaridad (Soya Solidarity), was launched. Soup kitchens served soya-based meals and cookbooks were written with soya-based recipes. As a result, many people are consuming soya-based foods on a daily basis.
There is a large body of scientific evidence showing that an unbalanced diet based on soya can have nutritionally damaging effects. Too much soya can inhibit absorption of calcium, iron, zinc and vitamin B12, and doctors in Argentina are already seeing such symptoms. Among the most worrying observations is the early onset of puberty in girls, possibly linked to the high levels of phytoestrogen in soya.
Other health problems have been caused by the widespread increased use of glyphosate. Glyphosate is entering the water supply. There are reports of crop sprayings by plane, dousing people and their homes. The more visible symptoms of this spraying include skin and eye irritations and recent field research (personal communications by local people and medical doctors) suggests that there is a great increase in the incidence of cancer within populations surrounding RR soya fields.
Studies carried out by the University of Formosa Province have reported serious health problems in peasant communities due to pesticide fumigation on surrounding RR soya fields. Their crop and animal production, which families depend on to survive, have been completely destroyed. A judge has forbidden the use of pesticides on RR soya, but companies have flouted the prohibition and kept on fumigating. Roundup-resistant weeds have appeared.
Highly toxic herbicides, some of them banned in other countries, which glyphosate was supposed to replace, have had to be brought back in use in addition to glyphosate. There are also reports of a fungus, new in Argentina (Phakopsora sp.), which is spreading and requiring additional fungicide.
In order to fight the "insect complex" that invades soya plantations, producers are recommended to use endosulphan together with cipermetrine, which together are labeled as extremely toxic for bees and fish and very toxic for birds. Prices for the insecticides, including air fumigation, are specified in the recommendations.
Argentina's balance of agricultural products has been seriously affected by the focus on a soya-led export economy. Production of traditional Argentinean products such as milk, wheat and meat has gone down, and the country now imports where it used to export. Other produce, such as lentils, peas, sweet maize, as well as different potato and sweet potato varieties, have disappeared together with the industries linked to their processing. Honey producers have been affected due to GM contamination, the loss of flora diversity, as well as death of bees by herbicide poisoning. These are not only bad for the country's economy but also devastating for the health and nutrition of the entire population.
Soya plantations began in the Argentina Pampas, one of the six most agriculturally productive regions in the world. Its soils cover some 9 million hectares and used to be rich in nutrients and organic matter. The "no tillage" method was introduced 10 years ago to reduce soil erosion on farms. Seeds are planted directly into the soil, without the need for ploughing, and herbicides are used to remove weeds. For this reason, direct seeding is often promoted as an environmentally friendly farming technique.
When herbicide tolerant GM soya was introduced, it became very popular in Argentina, as it fit in perfectly with no tillage. The rate of adoption of GM soya has surpassed even the industry's highest expectations. Farmers can now use glyphosate to remove weeds in combination with glyphosate-tolerant GM soya.
But problems soon appeared. Although direct seeding has reduced the rate of erosion, new diseases and pests have emerged, and the levels of nitrogen and phosphates in the soil were markedly reduced.
The no-till technique promoted with RR soya as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions actually produces worse damage by compaction of the ground, requiring more agrochemicals every year.
"In Argentina, the 'success' of the GM soybean story must largely be attributed to marketing by the seed companies rather than scientific evidence and farmer experience," says Walter Pengue, an agricultural engineer specialized in genetic improvement at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.


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BRICS Summit: This Chinese journalist loves India, Hindi and Bollywood songs
Xiamen [China], September 4 : Despite all eyes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit, a certain Chinese journalist has grabbed headlines, all thanks to her nonchalant Hindi-speaking skills.
Tang Yungai, a Chinese reporter with the China Radio International in the Hindi service department, while speaking to ANI, said that she loves India and has formally studied Hindi at a university here.
"As a Hindi leaner, I would just like to say that I love India and I travel with many Indian people and after meeting so many Indian people I came to know that Indians are very honest and they are very good and that's why I love India so much," said Tang Yungai, in fluent Hindi.
Tang Yungai, who is also referred to as Sapna, further said that she believes India and China's relations would get better and thrive, adding, "It will also be good for our work in the future."
Talking about the Doklam issue, Yungai said, "We shall wait and see what happens; both the President and the Prime Minister are going to have a talk soon."
Yungai seemed particularly fascinated with the Indian Cinema. She said, "People in China watched the film 'Dangal' and loved it here. Aamir Khan's character was not handsome looking in the film, but the Chinese people still loved him."
Yungai concluded by singing a famous Hindi song - 'Aa ja re' - from Indian classic 'Noorie' and folded her hands in 'Namastey' - a formal way to greet people in India.
Meanwhile, the BRICS Summit plenary session is underway at Xiamen.
While Chinese President Jinping, in his opening address, stressed on striking a balance between the speed of growth and the quality of growth, Prime Minister Modi called for a greater cooperation between the BRICS member-nations for ensuring global stability and peace, in his address.
https://www.newkerala.com/world-news.php ↣
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Police storm Herald house
BRIDGET MANANAVIRE • 20 June 2014 4:50PM • 5 comments
HARARE - Police yesterday raided Herald House looking for the Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi, in an unprecedented move which left journalists and executives at the State-controlled Zimpapers stable shell-shocked.
He was not at the office at the time of the raid but was reportedly later arrested at his lawyer's offices.
The storming of the heartbeat of the State-propaganda apparatus by police occurred almost simultaneously as they also visited the offices of the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper, looking for its editor Dumisani Muleya — and as the residence of editor of the Chronicle, Mduduzi Mathuthu, was broken into under suspicious circumstances.
The surprise turn of events comes as factionalism worsens in Zanu PF and follows on President Robert Mugabe's recent scathing attack on Information minister Jonathan Moyo, whom the 90-year old described as a "weevil" and "devil incarnate" — further accusing him of causing divisions in Zanu PF.
Perhaps even more tellingly, Mugabe has accused Moyo of appointing journalists to the editorship of State newspapers who were allegedly sympathetic to the opposition.
Police spokesperson Charity Charamba was not available for comment yesterday to clarify what charges Kudzayi was facing.
Zimpapers' group editor-in-chief, Pikirayi Deketeke, issued a statement yesterday confirming the raid and arrest.
"Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited wishes to advise its stakeholders that there are current investigations by the Zimbabwe law enforcement agencies involving the Sunday Mail Editor, Edmund Kudzayi. In furtherance to the above the agencies visited his home and office early yesterday morning, June 19, 2014 during his absence.
"The agencies carried a number of electronic gadgets including ipads from his office and did not state the reason for such. Edmund Kudzayi was also summoned to the police in absentia and did not report for duty.
"Edmund Kudzayi was arrested later in the day. By late last night Zimpapers had not yet ascertained the exact details of the charges.
"On another note the editor of the Chronicle, Mduduzi Mathuthu's property was stolen on the same night. We as Zimpapers are of the view that the above incidents are not related.
"We wish to advise our readers and stakeholders that Zimpapers as an organisation are a law abiding organisation and have, will and shall continue to co-operate with the law enforcement agencies."
Kudzayi's lawyer Joseph Mandizha also confirmed the arrest in an interview with the Daily News last night, but claimed he was not aware of the charges that were being preferred against his client.
"I am unable to talk right now, I am just getting into CID Law and Order," he told the Daily News.
Zimpapers bosses also confirmed last night that Kudzayi had been arrested, adding that the assistant editor of The Herald, Mabasa Sasa, would temporarily take over at the Sunday Mail, pending the outcome of Kudzayi's case.
In the other incident involving another Zimpapers editor, Mathuthu, the Chronicle boss had his house ransacked by "burglars".
Although Mathuthu said on his twitter account that the motive of the break-in appeared to be robbery, as various items, including clothes and a television set, were stolen, the developments in Harare have raised suspicion about the break-in.
Meanwhile, Moyo — also described by Mugabe as a "counter revolutionary" for appointing "unpatriotic" editors at Zimpapers — attended a politburo meeting in Harare yesterday, which was chaired by Mugabe.
It was not known at the time of going to Press whether the raid on Zimpapers was discussed at the meeting.
Mugabe, in his speeches at the funeral and burial of Nathan Shamuyarira, described Moyo as divisive and "the devil incarnate" who had sacked hardworking and loyal editors at Zimpapers.
"You have our minister of Information wanting to put people one against another.
"Don't make anyone in the party a political enemy. You may differ with others in the party, but that should not make you want to attack them in the paper. It's destructive ideology.
"We now have weevils in our midst. Zanu PF has weevils within its ranks," Mugabe charged.
Kudzayi, who has no traceable journalistic experience in the mainstream media, was appointed to head the Sunday Mail in April much to the chagrin of some Zanu PF heavyweights and seasoned scribes at Zimpapers.
Following his appointment in April, the State media described Kudzayi as "a media consultant with a strong technical background in software development and digital media."
Kudzayi was linked to the online news website The African Aristocrat which in 2010 published stories about the first family's personal lives. Kudzayi was also linked to the Amai Jukwa Facebook Page while some Australian hackers also claimed that they had evidence he was Baba Jukwa.
The Zimbabwe National Editors Forum (Zinef) said yesterday that it was gravely concerned by the arbitrary search by the police for the three editors without explaining the circumstances under which the search was being conducted.
"Zinef is concerned about the welfare of the editors, and we call upon the law enforcement agency to protect them and not to hunt them," said Brian Mangwende, the forum chairperson.
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4. To enhance the engagement of OFs and their families in the mobilization of migrant resources through various initiatives locally and overseas to promote investment and entrepreneurship to create jobs and economic opportunities.
Enhancing engagements of overseas Filipinos for local economic activities, investments and entrepreneurship.
d. Approximately 4 NGOs and 10 private sector groups involved in M&D initiatives such as the chambers of commerce, microfinance groups, cooperatives, remittance agents, banks, etc.
e. Members of the community who will benefit from jobs and economic opportunities provided by resources of overseas Filipinos.


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COVID-19 lockdowns brought out the birds
By Dana Kobilinsky
Barn swallows, which are threatened in Canada, stopped avoiding roads during lockdowns. Credit: Chris Koper
Nicola Koper had been studying the impacts of human development and traffic on wildlife for decades, often creating manipulative experiments to test how noise affects different species. When COVID-19 lockdowns began, she realized, so did the perfect natural experiment.
"We had this great tragedy for many people," she said. "But it also made me feel morally obligated to learn from it."
Koper realized the reduced traffic across the United States and Canada offered her the chance to look at human disturbance on wildlife at a larger scale than she could ever conduct a field study on. A professor of conservation biology at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba, Koper is the senior author of a paper published in Science Advances looking at how mandates to control the pandemic among humans affected birds.
Since she and her colleagues were also in lockdown and couldn't collect their own fieldwork, they turned to eBird citizen science data, allowing them to look at bird presence throughout the two countries.
The team analyzed springtime records of more than 4.3 million birds—from hummingbirds to eagles—for the years of 2017 to 2020, allowing them to look compare bird numbers before and after the lockdowns.
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) abundances increased more in counties with stronger lockdowns. Credit: Ilya Povalyaev
They found that almost all the species they studied—80%—changed their habitat use during the lockdown. Most began increasing in abundance in more human-altered places, like urban areas or within tens of kilometers of highways, compared to previous years. That included most warblers and New World swallows, whose species make up about half the 3 billion birds lost in the last five decades. "So, it's really relevant that those very ecologically important groups all benefited from decreased traffic," Koper said.
Even species that seem adapted to humans, like the American robin (Turdus migratorius), increased their use of human-altered places. "They increased in abundance in urban areas and within tens of kilometers of airports and major roads," Koper said. In the pre-pandemic period, traffic had clearly kept them from using these resources, she said.
Red-tailed hawk abundances decreased near highways, possibly because roadkill decreased. Credit: Paulson Des Brisay
A few species decreased their use of human-altered landscapes during the lockdown. Red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) moved farther from major roads during the pandemic, which may be due to less roadkill. But overall, most birds increased their presence in these human-altered areas.
Koper hopes to find out what it is about traffic that affects birds, and if there are mitigation measures, like sound barrier walls or quieter pavements, that could make a difference.
"I think the most important thing we learn from this is how sensitive even common species are to human activity, and specifically, to traffic," she said. "I think that indicates to us it's much more important to deal with vehicular traffic than we realized before."
Dana Kobilinsky is associate editor at The Wildlife Society. Contact her at dkobilinsky@wildlife.org with any questions or comments about her article. You can follow her on Twitter at @DanaKobi.
Read more of Dana's articles here.
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The strengths and talents you possess are an excellent fit for HECMA at this point in its growth. HECMA Leadership is a great way to not only expand the skills you possess but develop new abilities that will enhance your value to the profession and your college or university.
#2. You are a Role Model.
HECMA Leadership is a way to bring your years of combined experience in, and maybe out of, higher education to the benefit of others. Your commitment and passion for the field of higher education case management is part of the thoughtful leadership and mentorship you will be able to share with others locally, regionally and nationally.
#3. You can Make a Difference.
Being part of an association that is influencing the professional development and best practice of a burgeoning field in higher education can be pretty heady stuff. And immensely satisfying. Running for an elected position also raises your profile and that of your institution, which can help you engage stakeholders and influencers on your home court.
#4. You are a natural Ambassador.
Being a part of the HECMA Leadership Team means building new friendships and relationships with peers across North America. The Association thrives when successful networks among peer associations, national professional groups, and like-minded corporate affiliates are developed.
#5. Leadership Team is Fun.
Taking on a leadership role at the national level will not only be challenging, but will help you grow in new ways; both as a person and a leader. Regular work with energized colleagues (both on leadership and in committees) enhances your individual work, your network of support, and your sense of irony and humor. The friendships formed through this group are life changing and long lasting.


Sometimes known as upper living or reverse living, the concept is to swap the living areas, traditionally found on the ground level, with the bedrooms, traditionally found on the upper level. So, in effect, upside down living. Makes sense right?
This trend initially began in Scandinavia, where it is very popular, and has moved to Australia, USA and the UK in recent years.
The primary intention of upside down living, is to maximize any potential views of your property, whether they be coastal, river, acreage, parkland, mountain or whatever view you are lucky enough to have. Even the view over the 18th hole at your local golf course could be beckoning you on a daily basis. And who wouldn't love to relax on their expansive first floor balcony, glass in hand, enjoying the glorious summer sunsets in Perth.
There are a number of other advantages to reverse living which you may like to consider if the general idea of upside down living strikes a chord with you. As well as immersing your living areas with the magnificent vistas your block may have to offer, having your living areas upstairs will also maximize coastal breezes (being the famous 'Fremantle Doctor' for those lucky enough to live in Perth), as well as the natural light during the day.
Having your main living areas and master bedroom on the upper level of your home will also guarantee your views are unobstructed by any garden fencing, trees or neighbouring houses. In effect, depending on your design, you could have sweeping panoramic views throughout the upper level of your home, ensuring your living areas will be a great place to kick back, relax, reflect, entertain, cook, study, paint, read…or just be.
More and more new designs for upside down living homes are becoming available as the reverse living concept grows ever more popular here in Perth. The current upside down home designs are practical, pleasing to the eye and have a very appealing street presence with large balconies to the front of the homes.
If you have teenagers or independent older children still living at home, why not dedicate the ground floor rooms to them. With their bedrooms downstairs (and yours upstairs), plus perhaps a rumpus room or cinema room where they can entertain their boisterous, noisy friends.
For empty nesters who are lucky enough to have house guests, frequent visits from the in-laws, elderly parents or international relatives visiting Perth for a few days, add a little kitchenette downstairs and again the ground floor can be their little home from home, leaving the expansive views, large roomy balcony, sea breezes, and natural light as the hub of the home where you can all share some time together.
Upside down living makes sense in a lot of ways for a lot of reasons and is gaining more and more popularity in our Perth suburbs. If this is something that appeals to you speak to us about it and share your ideas. We would love to share some of our past work with you so you can see how amazing an upside down home design can be!


Fitness means being healthy physically healthy and emotionally healthy. When you are in good shape, it not only helps them physically but mentally, as it does physically. Read these tips below if you're someone looking to get in shape.
Many people work toward their fitness goals by lifting weight on a bench. There are six easy exercises you can do to help maintain the muscles in your body, and they are pull-ups, push ups, pull ups, push-ups, handstand push-ups and bridges.
Begin with smaller weights when you start weight lifting. Small muscles tire before large ones, so use dumbbells before moving on to the larger machines.
Strong thighs are important to prevent knee injury. Torn ligaments behind the kneecaps are common sports injury. You can do such things by doing leg curls and leg curls.
Keep a journal or record of what you do each day. You should even jot down the day's weather was like. This can help you notice trends associated with highs or lows in your day. If you had to put off exercising a little while, list the reason why that happened.
When you are lifting weights, doing a number of repetitions using lighter weights serves to give you greater muscle mass than doing fewer repetitions using heavier weights. Muscle mass is is not all about being able to lift the most but to endure the longest without losing strength.The top lifters in the world swear by this way of lighter weight.
Flex your glutes when you lift weights over your head. This will exercise your glutes a great workout while decreasing the odds of working out in general. This position will allow you to be more stable because it stabilizes the weights.
This will get your day off on the right foot and build healthy habits that can be intensified over time.
Don't take weekends off when you are trying to build an exercise habit. It's not uncommon for someone to view weekends as "free time" to rest and in many cases they are. You should always think about weight loss every day.
Using those words can make you feel less motivated and excited about exercising. When refering to exercising, try calling it by what you are actually going to be doing, running or cycling is more interesting.
You can improve your contact skills. Playing foosball will actually help improve your desired volleyball contact skills. Foosball is a sport that requires good hand-eye coordination. These skills can be mastered and tailored for volleyball world.
Donkey calf raises is a wonderful way to help build up calf muscles when trying to become more fit. These exercises are exceptionally effective for building up those calf muscles. You need a partner to sit on your back so that you are free to lift your calves upward.
Only gently workout the muscles that have been exercised the day before. An easy method to accomplish this is to work out tired muscles more lightly.
Break your run down into three distinct phases. Start running at a slower pace and gradually work up to doing the standard one. Push yourself to run as fast as you can in the last part of your run. This suggestion can help you build endurance and total distance over time.
Try to press your tongue up against your mouth during crunches. This way you avoid harmful strains and potentially injuring them.
Never bounce your body while stretching.This puts a lot of strain the muscles unnecessarily. Although many people do bounce when stretching, it is not true. The truth is that you are running an increased risk of injury by doing this. Keep in mind that correct stretches are solid holds not involving movement.
It can be tempting to go too hard when you first start working out. You must take your time to become accustomed to exercise if you don't ease into exercise.
The most efficient way to stay fit is daily exercise. This ensures that the hard work is not go to waste. It will also help your workouts to become good exercise habits. You will want lighter exercise on occasion so that you can avoid overloading your body by exercising lightly some days.
Are you struggling to lose weight and get in shape? A skipping rope can help get your blood flowing so that you can begin your workout fresh.
A useful bit of advice for bikers is leaning forward when they go uphill on their bikes. This keeps the weight evenly distributed and the front wheel firmly planted.
As you have read in the above article, it is feasible to reach a high level of fitness, and one you will be proud of. As long as you try to do something about it, there is no reason for you to feel ashamed for currently being out of shape. Your goals for getting fit will be within your grasp if you make use of the advice outlined here.


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'Soften Us To Our Enemies'
Politicus | blog | November 26, 2014 08:13 PM
'Soften Us To Our Enemies'
Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays, yet arguably the least commercialized. As it has always been, it is about giving thanks, and about the gathering of families:
"Over the river and through the wood,
To grandmother's house we go.
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
Through the white and drifted snow.
....'tis Thanksgiving Day."
–Lydia Maria Child, 1844.
Today the sleigh is a plane, train, bus or automobile. But Thanksgiving's carrying power 170 years after those words were written is proven by the fact that it is always the biggest traveling time of the year. Dispersed as they are, modern families crave a real meal, in real time, around a real table. Unlike, for example, "Presidents' Day," Thanksgiving is not primarily a concoction of the advertising industry. Its power derives from families themselves.
Here, near the Pilgrims' first landing, Thanksgiving has an enhanced meaning. The first mention of the first Thanksgiving was by Pilgrim Governor Edward Winslow in a letter to England: "...many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king, Massassoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted."
There the myth began. A myth is only a story that is passed down. It can be true, partly true, or false. Another account of the first Thanksgiving notes a feast but doesn't mention Indians. We are content to leave the facts of the matter to historians.
But why has the Thanksgiving myth become so powerful? That answer is easy. The Pilgrims were from the poorer parts of England. They were less educated and less well-off than the East Anglian Puritans who settled Boston 10 years later. They forsook everything for a treacherous journey to a place where they could openly practice their religion. Their journey is taken as the beginning of the movement for American independence, and their story became a powerful inspiration to the nation of emigrants that emerged in 1776.
It still is. Visitors to Plymouth's historic sites include many Africans, Asians and Spanish-speakers who have been denied religious liberty in the countries they came from. Their personal pilgrimages, and their thanksgiving for America, parallel those of the Pilgrims.
Yet among native-born Americans there are many who are too sophisticated for old myths. For some this may be no more than a wish to tell history more accurately about the fellow human beings living on the New England coast when the Pilgrims arrived. But others want to portray the America the Pilgrims helped to start not as humanity's beacon, but rather as its 400-year scourge.
This must be refuted. When honestly exposed, the truth about the Pilgrims' failings is to be accepted. But at Thanksgiving we prefer to quote from the uplifting Pilgrim prayer attributed to the second or third generation of Winslows, who settled in Marshfield:
"We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful.
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not be, give us strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."
–D.A. Mittell, Jr.
David A. Mittell, Jr. is a Boston-based political columnist and radio host who has been a columnist and political writer for many newspapers including the Patriot Ledger, the Providence Journal and today is Senior Editor at The Duxbury Clipper.
See his previous Op Eds for CapeCodTODAY.com here.
See his archived columns here.
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