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Q: Neo4j Start-Guide (IntelliJ) does someone know a good beginner tutorial for getting started with Neo4j? I downloaded the hello-world and cineast from neo4j examples, but I just can't make it run. I got AspectJ errors and spring errors and everytime I fix an error, a new one appears. I think, the problem is, that I don't really understand, how I have to structure a neo4j-spring-data project correctly. Could you tell me, what would be the best way to get a running example for neo4j?
Maybe some could post a working pom.xml configuration. I tried the configs from the neo4j examples and got exceptions. When I change the aspectj version from 1.6.? to RELEASE I can make the project but then I get a exception in glassfish (I deploy the webapp).
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So! Finally I made it working! Here some tipps for other neo4j-newbies:

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*Use Java 7! I'm not sure if it was me or java, but it didn't work with java 8 for me!

*Since spring-data 3.0 there is the strict checking (see: http://blog.neo4j.org/2014/03/spring-data-neo4j-progress-update-sdn-3.html), so you have to define the package of the repositories in the spring config xml! I did it like this:

applicationContext-graph.xml
<neo4j:repositories base-package="org.neo4j.app.todos"/>

<neo4j:config graphDatabaseService="graphDatabaseService" base-package="org.neo4j.app.todos" />
<bean id="graphDatabaseService"
  class="org.springframework.data.neo4j.rest.SpringRestGraphDatabase">
  <constructor-arg index="0" value="http://localhost:7474/db/data/" />
</bean>

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*Use the todo-example from the neo4j-examples, it's in my opinion the simplest of them.

I hope this helps someone.
Best regards

A: Lots of ways to learn, and you'll probably get lots of opinions (which could mean this question gets closed). But... you're really trying to make lots of things work at once.
f you really want to start learning Neo4j, Neo Technologies has a free online training course (which you can get to from their neo4j.org homepage, under Learn) that doesn't require anything to be installed, and you'll focus on core features of Neo4j (and Cypher), without worrying about coding frameworks or installing the database engine itself.

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The students reviewed cell functions and we had a pop quiz. There is a test on Monday Sept 20 on microscope, cell structures and functions and mitosis (which we are starting tomorrow). Students should be studying their crossword on cell parts and functions and their microscope part and functions.


Prince George Was Just Named One of Britain's Best Dressed — Along with Mom Kate and Aunt Meghan!
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Valuable 14th century coins found by couple walking in West Bohemia
https://english.radio.cz/valuable-14th-century-coins-found-couple-walking-west-bohemia-8688913#player=on
Kladruby Abbey, photo: Zdeňka Kuchyňová
The Museum of West Bohemia in Plzeň has announced the discovery of hundreds of silver and gold coins from the 14th century. The treasure, unearthed in a forest near the Kladruby Monastery in the region of Tachov, is believed to be one of the biggest troves of gold coins unearthed on the territory of the Czech Republic.
Photo: ČTK / Miroslav Chaloupka
The chance discovery occurred already in March, during the coronavirus lockdown, but it was not until this Monday that the museum announced the find to the public. The coins were stumbled upon by a young couple who went on a walk through the forest near the West Bohemian town of Stříbro.
Milan Metlička is an archaeologist from the Museum of West Bohemia in Plzeň:
"As they were walking through the forest, they spotted a few coins, two made of gold and one of silver, lying on the ground. They were probably dug up by some forest animals, most likely by wild pigs.
"There was a large stone protruding from the ground. When they pulled it out, they saw a large amount of gold and silver coins underneath and they immediately called us to announce the discovery."
Among the coins are gold ducats bearing the image of the Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, Albrecht of Austria and Rupert of the Palatinate as well as ducats from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
"It also contains 343 silver groschen mostly minted in Bohemia during the reign of Charles IV and several groshen bearing the image of John of Bohemia, the Duke of Luxembourg.
Milan Metlička, photo: ČTK / Miroslav Chaloupka
"The discovery of the silver groshen is not that unusual. But such a large trove of gold coins is really unique. No such discovery was made in the country in the past 50 years."
Archaeologists believe the coins were buried in the ground in the late 1370s. While the reason why someone hid the treasure is likely to remain unknown, it was most likely linked to the nearby Monastery in Kladruby.
"The monastery was located on a strategic medieval trade route between Prague and Nürnberg. And since the discovery was made not far from there and close to the royal town of Stříbro, it is very likely that it is somehow connected to it."
Museum of West Bohemia in Plzeň, photo: Miloš Turek
According to Mr Metlička, it is hard to express the value of the find in terms of money, but the nominal value of the gold coins, which weigh over 325 grams, is at least CZK 420,000.
"With the silver coins, it is more complicated, because they also contain copper, which reduced their value. However, the historic value of the silver coins could be around CZK 180,000 and the value of the gold coins could range between CZK three and four million."
The coins are expected to go on display in the Museum of West Bohemia in Plzeň at the end of this year or at the beginning of next year, after they have been restored and catalogued.
Author: Ruth Fraňková
Kladruby Abbey: a Czech architectural gem's long and winding road to European (if not world…
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PDGF-driven proliferation, migration, and IL8 chemokine secretion in human corneal fibroblasts involve JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway.
Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is associated with corneal fibroblast migration and proliferation and plays an important role in corneal wound healing. However, the intracellular mechanisms of PDGF-mediated functions in corneal fibroblasts are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that PDGF functional activities in the cornea involve the Janus kinase-2/signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 (JAK2-STAT3) signaling pathway and whether PDGF induces the expression of suppressors of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3), belonging to the novel family of feedback regulators of cytokine and growth factor activities. Human corneal fibroblast (HSF) cultures were used as an in vitro model for functional analysis. Real-time polymerase chain reactions were performed to quantify gene expression. Immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting techniques were used to measure protein expression. Cell growth, migration, and ELISA assays were used for functional validation. Low endogenous levels of STAT3 and SOCS3 mRNA and protein expression were noted in HSFs. PDGF treatment of HSF significantly induced SOCS3 mRNA (3.0-4.5 fold) and protein (1.5-2.5 fold) expression in a time-dependent manner. Similarly, PDGF treatment of HSF significantly increased STAT3 protein expression at two tested time points (2.5-2.96 fold). Cultures exposed to vehicle (control) did not show any change in SOCS3 and STAT3 mRNA or protein expression. An addition of AG-490, a selective inhibitor of the JAK2-STAT3 pathway, significantly inhibited PDGF-mediated STAT3 induction and cell growth and migration in HSF. We also observed that PDGF induced interleukin-8 (IL8) chemokine secretion (2 fold) and AG-490 inhibited IL8 secretion. Our data showed that PDGF induced STAT3, SOCS3, and IL8 chemokine secretion in human corneal fibroblasts. Further, PDGF-induced cell growth, migration, and IL8 secretion in corneal fibroblast involve the JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway.


Volunteers are the backbone of Junior Achievement (JA). They generously offer their time, passion, work and life experience with kids in our communities, and without them, our efforts to prepare young people for the 21st century workplace and global economy wouldn't be possible. JA is fortunate enough to work with individuals who have a unique spark and enthusiasm for collaboration – people like Matt Aschermann.
Through his company JE Dunn, Aschermann has taught JA to kindergarten, first grade and second grade students, and he's helped with JA Finance Park, presented by Transamerica. He also attended the JA Engage 2019 Kickoff Happy Hour where he spoke with friends and other young professionals about his volunteer experience. Even though Aschermann is, in his words, "an introverted person by nature," his shy tendencies haven't prevented him from jumping into opportunities with JA.
It's not only kids who leave class with important takeaways, though.


There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who delight in the law of the Lord (Psalm 1:2) and those who turn away from even hearing it. Those who delight in God's Word, who meditate on it and obey it, are blessed. Those who refuse to hear will themselves not be heard by the Lord.
A word about God's law. People often think of it as nothing more than a series of do's and don'ts, a system of "Thou shalt not's" and "I'm gonna get ya's," designed to control and manipulate and smother the joy of living.
Not so. The Hebrew word for "law" is torah, and can just as well be translated as "instruction," which sets a much different tone. Instruction helps us, enables us, frees us. The Word of God, which is the law of the Lord, presents us with the precepts, the beginning principles, of living successful, fulfilling lives.
That is all well and good — but why is it that the one who turns away from hearing the law does not get his prayers heard by God?
The answer is that God specifically tunes in on faith. The Bible says, "Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Hebrews 11:6). And how do we get faith? By hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Faith is believing what God has said. Those who have never heard the promises of God's Word are not in any kind of position to believe them. Those who refuse to hear have cut themselves off from relationship with God.
There are three things: faith, doubt, unbelief.
Faith is hearing and believing the Word of God. God always listens to faith when it prays, and is very pleased by it. John said, "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5:14-15). Faith gets heard — and receives the answer.
Doubt is lack of knowledge about what God has said. When you don't know what God has promised and provided on your behalf, you are uncertain about what He will do for you. Your prayers will be tentative and feel like a "crap shoot." James said, "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways" (James 1:6-7). Doubt has no guarantee of ever getting heard. The solution to doubt is simple — start getting into the Word of God, listening to His promises and following His instructions. Faith will come.
Unbelief is the deliberate turning away from the Word of God. This is what Proverbs 28:9 is talking about, a man who is not simply ignorant of what the Word says, but has turned away and refuses to hear what it says. Faith is far from him, for he has despised the very source of faith. Consequently, when he prays, his prayers do not get heard. God is in no way pleased by them because they have nothing of faith to them.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
The Pharisee observed the outward form of the law, but his heart was turned away from hearing the heart of God in the torah. He had plenty of pride, and tons of faith in his good works, but he did not have the Bible kind of faith, which comes only by hearing the Word of God. Jesus says that the Pharisee prayed "with himself." His prayer got all tangled up with his pride and never reached the ear of God.
The tax-collector heard enough of the Word of God to know that he was a sinner, but more than that, he heard the promise of God's mercy. He was full of faith about both those things and he believed the mercy with everything that was in him.
Result: The Lord despised the haughty prayer of the Pharisee, who turned from hearing the law of God, but was greatly pleased by the humble prayer of the tax-collector, who fully believe the Word of God's mercy.
God always listens to faith, and His passions are aroused by it. Faith comes by hearing what God has said. If you will hear Him, He will hear you.


In a recent decision, the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York broadly interpreted the meaning of "interest" in the context of determining the scope of a sale free and clear of "liens, claims, encumbrances, and interests" under section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code. "Interest" is an undefined term under the Bankruptcy Code. By adopting an expansive scope of the term "interest," the court's interpretation provides better protections to asset purchasers in bankruptcy sales and indirectly, will likely result in higher sale prices for sales under section 363 and therefore maximize the value of the bankruptcy estate for the benefit of creditors.


Inherited mutations in Lynch syndrome–associated genes were found in 16% of people with MSI-H tumors, compared to 1.9% of those with MSI-I tumors and only 0.3% of those with MSS tumors.
Nearly 50% of patients with MSI-H/MSI-I tumors who were identified as having Lynch syndrome had cancer types not previously, or rarely, linked to the syndrome, including mesothelioma, sarcoma, adrenocortical cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, and ovarian germ cell cancer.
57 MSI-I/MSI-H tumor samples were also tested for abnormal DNA repair proteins—and MMR-D was found in nearly all (98.3%) of those tumors.
A genomic study of more than 15,000 tumor samples showed that people who have tumors with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H)—a genomic marker associated with a large number of genetic mutations in the tumor—are more likely to have Lynch syndrome, a hereditary condition that increases a person's risk of developing many different types of cancer. Among people with MSI-H tumors, 16% were subsequently found to have Lynch syndrome. Researchers also found that Lynch syndrome is linked to more types of cancer than previously thought. The study was featured in a press briefing today and will be presented by Stadler et al at the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract LBA1509).
It is estimated that about 1 in 300 (0.3%) people in the general population has Lynch syndrome, which increases a person's risk of developing several cancers. The most common cancers associated with Lynch syndrome are colorectal and endometrial, but people with Lynch syndrome also have a higher risk of developing other gastrointestinal cancers, as well as ovarian, brain, and skin cancers. The hallmark of Lynch syndrome–associated tumors is MSI-H.
MSI is a genomic marker that indicates a defect in a cell's ability to repair damaged DNA, resulting in the accumulation of mutations. Traditionally, MSI testing has been performed on colorectal and endometrial cancers as an initial screening test to identify patients who may be at risk for having Lynch syndrome. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in 2017 for use in all MSI-H tumors, regardless of tumor type, MSI testing of tumors has become broadly used to identify patients who may benefit from pembrolizumab.
Researchers analyzed more than 15,000 tumor samples collected from patients with more than 50 different types of advanced cancer using a comprehensive genomic test called MSK-IMPACT. All study participants were part of a prospective study of MSK-IMPACT and received cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The test uses next-generation sequencing to look for mutations in hundreds of cancer-related genes, as well as other molecular changes, including MSI status.
Based on the results of the genomic analysis, the tumor samples were classified into three groups: MSI-stable (MSS, no MSI instability found), MSI-indeterminate (MSI-I, moderate level of MSI), and MSI-H. The vast majority (93.2%) of tumors were found to be MSS; 4.6% were MSI-I; and 2.2% were MSI-H. Inherited mutations in Lynch syndrome–associated genes were found in 16% of people with MSI-H tumors, compared to 1.9% of those with MSI-I tumors and only 0.3% of those with MSS tumors.
As expected, about 25% of the 1,025 MSI-H/MSI-I tumors were colorectal or endometrial cancers. These are the most common cancers linked to Lynch syndrome, and MSI testing is routinely performed on such tumors. However, nearly 50% of patients with MSI-H/MSI-I tumors who were identified as having Lynch syndrome had cancer types not previously, or rarely, linked to the syndrome, including mesothelioma, sarcoma, adrenocortical cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, and ovarian germ cell cancer. Of these patients, 45% did not meet Lynch syndrome genetic testing criteria based on family or personal cancer history. According to the authors, this suggests that Lynch syndrome is linked to a broader spectrum of cancers than previously thought and that MSI-H/MMR-D is predictive of Lynch syndrome, regardless of cancer type.
In the final step of the study, 57 MSI-I/MSI-H tumor samples were also tested for abnormal DNA repair proteins—and MMR-D was found in nearly all (98.3%) of those tumors. These findings suggest that if either MSI-H or MMR-D is found in the tumor, hereditary genetic testing for Lynch syndrome should be performed.
The chance of developing certain cancers linked to Lynch syndrome can be lowered through frequent screening (eg, yearly colonoscopy and endoscopy for gastrointestinal cancers) and preventive surgery (eg, removal of the uterus and ovaries for gynecologic cancers). More research is needed to develop screening and preventive strategies for other cancers linked to Lynch syndrome.


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Understanding Women's Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings: The Case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal
Carr, Edward R., Grant Fleming, and Tshibangu Kalala. 2016. "Understanding Women's Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings: The Case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal." Weather, Climate, and Society 8 (3): 247–64.
Authors: Edward R. Carr, Grant Fleming, Tshibangu Kalala
While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to end users. This is particularly true of climate services intended to address the needs of women in agrarian contexts. The design of such gender-sensitive services is hampered by oversimplified framings of women as a group in both the adaptation and climate services literatures. This paper demonstrates that even at the village level, women have different climate and weather information needs, and differing abilities to act on that information. Therefore, starting with preconceived connections between identities and vulnerability is likely to result in overgeneralizations that hinder the ability to address the climate-related development and adaptation needs of the most vulnerable. Instead, as is demonstrated in this paper, the design and implementation of effective gender-sensitive climate services must start with the relevant social differences that shape people's livelihoods decisions and outcomes, including but not limited to gender.
Keywords: geographic location/entity, Africa, forecasting, seasonal forecasting, variability, climate variability, applications, agriculture, local effects, societal impacts
Topics: Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change, Gender, Women, Livelihoods Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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A Stronger Voice for Women in Local Land Governance: Effective Approaches in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal
Sutz, Philippine, Amaelle Seigneret, Mary Richard, Patricia Blankson Akapko, Fati Alhassan, and Mamadou Fall. 2019. A Stronger Voice for Women in Local Land Governance: Effective Approaches in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal. London: International Institute for Environment and Development.
Authors: Philippine Sutz, Amaelle Seigneret, Mary Richard, Patricia Blankson Akapko, Fati Alhassan, Mamadou Fall
Pressures on land have been on the rise over the past two decades across subSaharan Africa, notably due to increasing commercial interests fuelled by global demand for agricultural commodities. In Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal, such pressures have exacerbated tenure insecurity for rural populations and resulted in numerous cases of dispossession and displacement.
In many cases, rural livelihoods are being undermined: increased competition and reduced access to land impact communities' economic development, sometimes threatening food security, and bear significant impacts on wellbeing and sociocultural identities. Communities with fragile and exclusionary governance structures are more likely to lose out. Although important progress has been made in terms of legal empowerment – including women's empowerment –, local land governance systems across the three countries studied remain weak and gender-discriminatory.
Vulnerable members – in particular women – often hold little to no control over land and are significantly under-represented in decision-making processes, although situations can vary across areas. As a result, they tend to be more severely affected by the impacts of commercial pressures on land.
This highlights a need to address exclusion and gender-discrimination in local level governance structures. The rationale underlining this idea is that increasing social cohesion and making decision-making arrangements more participative and gender-equitable will strengthen a community's capacity to collectively discuss and deliberate on land-related matters.
This report focuses on initiatives that have been taking place in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal since 2016, and that aim to reinforce governance structures to make them inclusive and gender-inclusive in response to the challenges aforementioned. The approaches they developed aim to support women in entering the political space and participate meaningfully in land governance. In Tanzania, where village authorities play a key role in local land governance, the Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA) has been working with village councils across several districts to support the adoption of gender-sensitive village bylaws promoting more inclusive and participative land governance.
In Ghana, the Network for Women's Rights (NETRIGHT) and the Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation (GSF) have overseen the establishment of local, gender sensitive governance committees in nine communities. These advise traditional authorities in land-related decision-making processes, reflecting a local context where customs play a key role in land management.
In Senegal where customary land tenure has been abolished and land management has been devolved to the municipal level, Innovation Environnement Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique) has piloted the reform of a local government body responsible for land management. The aim is to promote the inclusion and participation of women and the adoption of a local land charter.
The report presents each initiative and associated outcomes and lessons, and then reflects on their broader implications for the future of work on gender and land rights.
Topics: Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Land Grabbing, Rights, Land Rights, Security, Food Security Regions: Africa, East Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania
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Gender Audits: An Approach to Engendering Energy Policy in Nepal, Kenya and Senegal
Clancy, Joy S., and Nthabiseng Mohlakoana. 2020. "Gender Audits: An Approach to Engendering Energy Policy in Nepal, Kenya and Senegal." Energy Research & Social Science 62 (April): 101378.
Authors: Joy S. Clancy, Nthabiseng Mohlakoana
Gender audits are an approach for putting gender on the policy agenda and are an alternative to gender budgets being less dependant on experts in government finance.
This paper explores the effectiveness of gender audits as an approach to mainstreaming in the energy sector which has lagged other sectors in mainstreaming gender. The assessment takes the experiences of an international network on gender and sustainable energy that aims to get gender onto the energy policy agenda. Since there is no standard audit methodology, the network developed its own.
The paper uses an analysis of qualitative data, reviews of audit reports and key informant interviews to answer two questions. As a result of gender audits, have gender issues or attending to women's particular interests been incorporated in energy policy? Did participation in an audit build the capacity of national actors to contribute to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector? Detailed data comes from network countries conducting audits: Kenya, Senegal and Nepal, with supporting evidence from 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The gender audit methodology used is partially effective in integrating gender issues into government energy policy. Pragmatic, conceptual and political barriers to gender mainstreaming continue to operate. Adopting gender-aware policies occurs rapidly in organisations that participated in the audits. Male employees more readily accept gender policies when they see that policies also benefits men. In the audit countries, a group of national gender and energy experts has been established able to contribute to mainstreaming gender in the energy sector.
Keywords: gender mainstreaming, gender audits, energy policy, engendering policy, knowledge networks, gender capacity, mainstreaming effectiveness
Topics: Gender, Gender Analysis, Gender Budgeting, Gender Mainstreaming, Governance, Infrastructure, Energy Regions: Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Asia, South Asia Countries: Kenya, Nepal, Senegal
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Women Smuggling and the Men who Help Them: Gender, Corruption and Illicit Networks in Senegal
Howson, Cynthia. 2012. "Women Smuggling and the Men who Help Them: Gender, Corruption and Illicit Networks in Senegal." Journal of Modern African Studies 50 (3): 421-45.
Author: Cynthia Howson
This paper investigates gendered patterns of corruption and access to illicit networks among female cross-border traders near the Senegambian border. Despite a discourse of generosity and solidarity, access to corrupt networks is mediated by class and gender, furthering social differentiation, especially insofar as it depends on geographic and socio-economic affinity with customs officers, state representatives and well-connected transporters. Issues of organisational culture, occupational identity and interpersonal negotiations of power represent important sources of corruption that require an understanding of the actual dynamics of public administration. While smuggling depends on contesting legal and social boundaries, the most successful traders (and transporters) strive to fulfil ideal gender roles as closely as possible. Ironically, trading on poverty and feminine vulnerability only works for relatively affluent women.
Topics: Corruption, Economies, Informal Economies, Poverty, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Femininity/ies, Trafficking, Human Trafficking Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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The Gendered Nature of Subsistence and Its Effect on Customary Land Tenure
Grigsby, William J. 2004. "The Gendered Nature of Subsistence and Its Effect on Customary Land Tenure." Society & Natural Resources 17 (3): 207-22.
Author: William J. Grigsby
In agrarian societies living in marginally productive environments, the primacy of subsistence production can shape customary rights to land and resources. In the Senegalese villages that participated in this field research, the subsistence imperative means land not being cultivated should be made available to those who would clear and farm it, regardless of who claims the land. Men consider women's contributions to the subsistence enterprise as secondary to their own responsibilities for organizing communal grain production. Women can use land, but not control it or manage its resources, and are subject to eviction and/or relegated to less fertile areas. Further, women's access to important commons resources may be more a function of prevailing land use than any structure of tenure rights.
Keywords: bush fallow, gender, land tenure, land use, Senegal, subsistence, West Africa, women, Property Rights
Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Land Tenure, Rights, Land Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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Globalization, Gender, and Poverty in the Senegal River Valley
Koopman, Jeanne E. 2009. "Globalization, Gender, and Poverty in the Senegal River Valley." Feminist Economics 15 (3): 253–85.
Author: Jeanne E. Koopman
In an impressive attempt to guarantee food security, well over two billion dollars have been invested in the modernization of the agrarian economy in the Senegal River Valley. But, even though two huge dams and thousands of village-based irrigation schemes have been constructed since the late 1970s, food security is still as illusive as ever. This study attempts to explain why. In doing so it focuses on the impact of donor-dominated macro-structural change on gender and class relations. This analytical perspective has two benefits: First, it reveals the risks posed by foreign domination of development programs for different segments of the rural population. Second, it points to a critical element in a new approach to improving farm productivity and food security - improving women's access to land and technology.
Keywords: food security, foreign aid, inequality, structural adjustment, women's land rights
Topics: Class, Development, Economies, Poverty, Food Security, Gender, Women, Infrastructure Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies: Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections
Lachenmann, Gudrun, and Petra Dannecker. 2008. Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies: Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Authors: Gudrun Lachenmann, Petra Dannecker
Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies explores the negotiation processes of global development concepts such as poverty alleviation, human rights, and gender equality. It focuses on three countries that are undergoing different Islamisation processes: Senegal, Sudan, and Malaysia. While much has been written about the hegemonic production and discursive struggle of development concepts globally, this book analyzes the negotiation of these development concepts locally and translocally. Lachenmann and Dannecker present empirically grounded research to show that, although women are instrumentalized in different ways for the formation of an Islamic identity of a nation or group, they are at the same time important actors and agents in the processes of negotiating the meaning of development, restructuring of the public sphere, and transforming the societal gender order.
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Topics: Armed Conflict, Development, Economies, Economic Inequality, Poverty, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Livelihoods, Post-Conflict, Religion, Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Asia, South Asia Countries: Malaysia, Senegal, Sudan
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Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal
Hill, Joseph. 2014. "Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal." Islamic Africa 5 (2): 275-315.
Author: Joseph Hill
Gendered metaphors of begetting, birth, milk nursing, maternal nurturing, virility, filial piety, patrilineage, and marital relationships have been central to Sufi imaginations of religious knowledge and authority for over a millennium. Contemporary adherents of the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi movement in Senegal continue to use these metaphors, picturing changing relations of religious authority in terms of familiar social realities. Although the most widely used metaphors are perhaps those of fatherhood for male leaders and motherhood for female leaders, a range of masculine and feminine metaphors can describe either men or women. The Fayḍa Tijāniyya's founder, Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, is best known to disciples as "Baay" ("Father"). The paternal metaphor is largely reserved for Shaykh Ibrahim's unique place in the movement. Yet women leaders overwhelmingly describe themselves in terms of maternal metaphors, presenting religious leadership as growing naturally out of their maternal qualities. At the same time, these women deconstruct gender distinctions using mystical discourses, sometimes presenting all Sufis as "men" and sometimes insisting that gender has no reality. Although some scholars have argued that Sufi gender metaphors value men and masculinity while devaluing women and femininity, this article shows that the effects of a metaphor must be sought in the performative context in which it is invoked. Ancient gender metaphors now serve to imagine new configurations of religious authority, including the growing number and influence of women Sufi leaders.
Topics: Clan, Gender, Women, Men, Masculinity/ies, Gender Roles, Femininity/ies, Gendered Power Relations, Governance, Religion Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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Land and Water Access for Women of the Locality of Velingara – Senegal
Gaye, Docteur Awa, Papa Gallo Sow, Ousseynow KA, Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, Martial Coly Bop, Fatou Omar Sy Ndiaye, Alioune Badara Tall, et al. 2014. "Land and Water Access for Women of the Locality of Velingara – Senegal." Science Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 2014: 1-8.
Authors: Docteur Awa Gaye, Papa Gallo Sow, Ousseynow KA, Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, Martial Coly Bop, Fatou Omar Sy Ndiaye, Alioune Badara Tall
Objective: To assess women's access to land and water in Kounkané and Diobé ‑ Kabendou municipalities in Vélingara city/ Senegal.
Methods: After a literature review of policies and guidelines for women's access to land and water, quantitative and qualitative research from questionnaire, interview and focus group was made. Depending on the type of research, software Epi- info and SPSS were used to capture, control, validation, and data analysis.
Results: 448 women within an outside the women's promotion group or not, leaders or not, with an age ranging from 18 to 92 years.
- First ethnic: Pular with 69%;
- 85.5% of married women;
- 40.60% uneducated;
- 48, 80% holders of farmland;
- Running water was available at 98.40%. 62.3 % of wells are at home and not covered. Public taps accounted for 0.9 %.
Conclusion: Access to economic rights for women's Diaobé ‑Kabendou and Kounkané remains a major challenge. The development of operational action plans could ensure sustainable access is an imperative for the basic needs of the most vulnerable group. This effort would be undertaken for humanitarian reasons, and because it directly affects the fundamental fight against poverty: health, equity and economic growth.
Keywords: water access, land access, economic growth, women's poverty
Topics: Economies, Environment, Gender, Women, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal
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Women, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Deforestation: a Cross-National Study
Shandra, John M., Carrie L. Shandra, and Bruce London. 2008. "Women, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Deforestation: A Cross-National Study." Population and Environment 30 (1-2): 48–72.
Authors: John M. Shandra, Carrie L. Shandra, Bruce London
There have been several cross-national studies published in the world polity theoretical tradition that find a strong correlation between nations with high levels of environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and low levels of various forms of environmental degradation. However, these studies neglect the role that women's NGOs potentially play in this process. We seek to address this gap by conducting a cross-national study of the association between women's NGOs and deforestation. We examine this relationship because deforestation often translates into increased household labor, loss of income, and impaired health for women and, as a result, women's non-governmental organizations have become increasingly involved in dealing with these problems often by protecting forests. We use data from a sample of 61 nations for the period of 1990–2005. We find substantial support for world polity theory that both high levels of women's and environmental NGOs per capita are associated with lower rates of deforestation. We also find that high levels of debt service and structural adjustment are correlated with higher rates of forest loss. We conclude with a discussion of findings, policy implications, and possible future research directions.
Keywords: deforestation, women, non-governmental organizations, cross-national
Topics: Economies, Environment, Extractive Industries, Gender, Women, NGOs Regions: Africa, MENA, Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Americas, Caribbean countries, Central America, North America, South America, Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Baltic states, Balkans, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Oceania Countries: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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See who's free. Swipe down to chill with your friends.
Would you recommend Down to Chill to a friend?
Alternative tagline: "Tinder for your homies" If I had enough friends using this, I'd find it valuable but the truth is, it's not that useful until you have a critical mass of friends using the app. One suggestion to the founders is to target college campuses (and maybe they are) to saturate those communities.
@rrhoover Smart that they've integrated it with Facebook for this reason.
@nikkielizdemere FB or contacts importer are pretty much mandatory to have a chance of getting this off the ground. That's just plumbing though. The hard part is reaching that "tipping point" for thousands of individuals where it starts to become useful.
@rrhoover check out the launch video!
were combining quality content with local press coverage (daily Pennsylvanian, technically Philly, Philly business journal). we think as long as we hit those critical densities for the people we target we can grow steadily while still providing value to clusters of early adopters.
Get notified when your friends arrive/leave a location!


FluidSecure is a privately held corporation with our Global Headquarters and sales office in Tallahassee, Florida. FluidSecure is a subsidiary of Trak Engineering, Inc. Trak Engineering, Inc. started in the fuel management business on February 5, 1981, in Tallahassee, in response to the increasing demand for integrated, computerized fuel management and fleet control. Trak has always only manufactured Fuel and Fluid Management systems – and has stayed strong in this industry with over 500 customers around the United States.
Our employees, in Tallahassee and throughout North America, are from diverse backgrounds and ethnic cultures. Most are U.S. citizens who live in our neighborhoods, participate in our communities, and contribute to our economy.
When the revolutionary idea of FluidSecure was invented by our team of engineers we decided that it was so game changing we had to make FluidSecure its own company. Listening to our customers we heard there were two main challenges with any fluid\fuel management system: #1 Complicated installation and Cost were the first obstacles in inquiring a fluid management system. #2 Maintenance of a fluid/fuel management system, a true computer system, that is left outside in the harsh environmental conditions.
FluidSecure was designed with no more pedestals, no more extensive conduit and wires in installation, and best of all consists of two (2) hardware parts. Each FluidSecure LINK, one needed per hose, has simply 2 to 4 wires to connect to the pump to install. The driver uses an APP on a smartphone to access the system and gain authorization to fuel. For those customers that must have pedestal we have a FluidSecure HUB that contains a cellular Tablet (basically a "big" smartphone) to allow multiple drivers to access. The HUB is in an durable ABS plastic chemically sealed pedestal with heater/fans for environmental controls. The HUB can also accept FOBs, Fuel Cards, Organization Personnel Cards, etc.
The FluidSecure Research & Development Department is dedicated to harnessing new technologies and developing new solutions that meet the growing and changing needs of private and government fleets. Since our first system, we continue to design, develop, test, manufacture and distribute our solutions from Tallahassee, Florida. Our number one priority remains you, our user: to help you achieve your objectives; to provide you with complete solutions that are easy to use; and to anticipate tomorrow's needs with today's solutions. .
FluidSecure is a progressive leader in developing and manufacturing computerized fuel management solutions. Our mission, since our inception in 1981, is to enhance and perfect our systems to meet your changing requirements. Our systems help any size organization from government entities to private industries make efficient use of fuel and fluid-related consumables. Escalating prices and economic oversight have resulted in a demand for accurate information, control, and accountability of fluid assets.
We provide products that add value to and integrate with our automated fuel management solutions. Our customer base comprises thousands of fuel islands and several million vehicles; all operating successfully with FluidSecure's integrated solutions. One of FluidSecure's strengths is that we excel in "outside-the-box" thinking. The willingness and flexibility to customize both the Fuel Sentry and the Fuel Management System program is fundamental to our company.
FluidSecure is an American company. We buy American goods, and our products are all manufactured and assembled in the United States. Our systems are manufactured and distributed from our corporate headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida. FluidSecure is proud that our employees come from diverse backgrounds, religions, and ethnic cultures. Our staff is active in our community and participate in a number of charitable organizations.


Coinbase has stated its commitment to introduce SegWit compatibility in "a few weeks," fulfilling a promise made to customers in late 2017.
In a tweet Monday, the largest US exchange and wallet provider repeated claims made late last year that SegWit – as a "feature" – was less of a priority for developers than security and performance.
"Our engineering team has begun the final testing phase of SegWit for Bitcoin on Coinbase. SegWit compatible Bitcoin sends/receives will be available for customers in the next few weeks," staff wrote, linking to the original announcement from December.
Our engineering team has begun the final testing phase of SegWit for Bitcoin on Coinbase.
SegWit compatible Bitcoin sends/receives will be available for customers in the next few weeks.
In the face of volatile Bitcoin network fees and competitors already implementing SegWit, which reduces both fees and transaction times, Coinbase has faced increasing pressure from users to follow suit.
A petition in January to force an upgrade as the company's "top" priority gained over 12,000 signatures.
"Many of our customers have been asking for SegWit, and we're working out a way to implement this upgrade safely," Coinbase's new vice president and general manager Dan Romero wrote in December's SegWit pledge.
Coinbase wallet and exchange users continue to face a raft of difficulties as a result of backend technical problems, network health, scandals and external factors.
While developers have sought to reinforce resilience of the exchange's operations, an unexpected announcement from Visa and MasterCard late last month saw transactions linked to purchasing cryptocurrency accrue significantly higher processing fees.
Coinbase attempted to focus blame on the payments giants, but announcements on social media saw customers chide the exchange.
What do you think about Coinbase's SegWit timeline? Let us know in the comments below!


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The Sleeping Muse ( or ) is a bronze sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși in 1910. It was originally carved from marble using Baroness Renée-Irana Frachon as the model. Refining the sculpture, Brâncuși cast several of the sculptures in bronze, which are now in museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is a model of a head, without a body, with markings to show features such as hair, nose, lips, and closed eyes. In A History of Western Art, Laurie Adams says that the sculpture has "an abstract, curvilinear quality and a smooth contour that create an impression of elegance." By casting them in metal with a fine finish, these sculptures are "self-sufficient, archetypal modern forms".

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Acknowledging that Canada was increasingly failing to deliver access to justice to its citizens, the former Chief Justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin established the Action Committee that included justice sector leaders from across the country. After years of hard work, the Action Committee produced in October 2013 a Roadmap for Change. This is a call for action, and A2JBC is BC's response to this call. Former Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is now the Chair of the Action Committee.
A national public awareness campaign is underway. The campaign, "Justice for All", is designed to increase the public's awareness and interest in justice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initiatives. The goal is to encourage the public to better understand why the civil and family justice systems should matter to them. It is also designed to benefit all of those persons and organizations working to advance access to justice by offering a better understanding of the public's perception of access to justice issues.
The legal system is critical to a healthy democracy and strong communities.
You can follow and contribute to the campaign on social media via Twitter with #justiceforall or #justicepourtous and on Facebook at ActionCommA2J. You can also view the Action Committee's justice development goals at www.JusticeDevelopmentGoals.ca.


Consumer loans on Friday became cheaper with banks moving to a new way of setting lending rates following RBI\'s diktat to ensure faster and effective transmission of its policy rate cuts to borrowers.
New Delhi : Consumer loans on Friday became cheaper with banks moving to a new way of setting lending rates following RBI's diktat to ensure faster and effective transmission of its policy rate cuts to borrowers. A number of banks, including ICICI, Bank of India, IDBI on Friday joined their peers like SBI, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank to make a shift to lending rates based on marginal cost of funds.
Other banks that have adopted new methodology for calculating lending rates include Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce. Banking major SBI, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, among others yesterday said that they would move to new methodology for setting lending rates from April 1. RBI had asked banks to price fixed rate loans of up to three years based on marginal cost of funds from this day.
The lending rate based on marginal cost of funds is lower than base rate in some cases resulting in lower EMIs for borrowers. Most of the banks were deciding lending rates based on their average cost of funds. Experts have said implementation of Marginal Cost of Funds-based Lending Rate (MCLR) would bring down lending rate by up to 1 per cent in some cases.
ICICI Bank in a statement said that it has fixed lending rate of 9.10 per cent for three-month loan, 9.15 per cent for six months and 9.20 per cent for one year loan. The base rate or the minimum lending rate of ICICI Bank is 9.35 per cent. Similarly, after implementing MCLR, Kotak Mahindra pegged lending rate at 9.60 per cent for one-year loan and for 3 years at 9.65 per cent. Kotak Mahindra Bank has fixed its base rate at 9.50 per cent.
The MCLR is expected to address the RBI's primary objective of expediting monetary policy transmission along with augmenting uniformity and transparency in the calculation methodology of lending rates, ratings agency Ind-Ra has said. Moreover, loans may become more cheaper if RBI cuts policy rate next week as widely expected. RBI is scheduled to announce first bi-monthly monetary olicy on April 5.


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There's no doubt about it -- keeping up with your marketing tasks can be overwhelming, whether you choose to market via networking, print advertising, or through a strategic set of online techniques. As I have a virtual company and can work with clients from around the globe, I don't like to limit my marketing to local efforts. Having a viable presence online is more important to me and seems to work best for my company. Therefore, I primarily concentrate on things I can do to bring visitors to my website and demonstrate my expertise to them while they are on the site.
Recently inspired by a blog post that I had read, I decided to create a regular daily, weekly, month, and quarterly marketing to-do list. First, I brainstormed a list of ideas of marketing tasks that I perform regularly, and others that have remained on my to-do list for awhile, as I've never gotten around to them. Then I categorized them into either a quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily task. On the third examination of these tasks, I went through and culled all but those to which I thought I could realistically commit on a regular basis.
Below are the tasks that comprise my online marketing action plan. Add them to your own online marketing to-do list as appropriate, or substitute other tasks that are a better fit for your business. Quarterly Tasks 1. Send out post card campaign to targeted national media list promoting myself as an expert. Prior to mailing, have VA call contacts to update list.
2. Request testimonials from new coaching clients, membership site members, product purchasers, and speaking gig hosts and update appropriate pages on my sites. Monthly Tasks 1.
Update my blog with new reading lists, recommended resources, products, etc. 2. Update the media page on my site with links to new press coverage I've received, press releases I've submitted, and story ideas I can offer to the media. 3. Write promotional copy for free list building teleclass and have VA submit teleclass to major event promotion sites 4.
Create handout for free teleclass and conduct teleclass. 5. Send out at least three feelers for potential online collaborations/strategic alliances or joint ventures with other sites, speakers, etc. 6. Create one new information product and upload it to my sites for sale. 7.
Check click-through and conversions with ezine and banner ads and determine whether to renew for another month. 8. Research and find one new online advertising resource to try.
9. Write a press release based on one of my articles and submit through PRWeb.com. Weekly Tasks 1. Check on my Google, MSN, and ClickRiver PPC ad campaigns to ensure they are still current and relevant and update any bids for any keywords on my list where I have been outbid. 2.
Write an article for my email newsletter. 3. Find a great resource to recommend in my newsletter and write a personal article for email newsletter. 4. Send out the email newsletter to list.
5. Publish the article on my website. 6. Archive the ezine to my site.
7. Have VA publish the ezine content on my business blog and on my social networking blogs at MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Ning. 8.
Have VA submit the main newsletter article to articles banks and distribution lists. 9. Create a podcast from my article and distribute to podcast sites.
10. Answer a reader-submitted question and post response in blog. 11. Create one additional blog post on Monday and set it up to publish on Tuesday. 12. Review my Google Alerts and find a new blog with a respectable Google Page Rank and comment on a post.
13. Do a Google search for keywords that best describe my business and see where my site shows up in organic search. As needed, conduct SEO tweaks on my sites for betting rankings Daily Tasks 1. Read the blogs to which I subscribe and post comments as appropriate. 2.
Review the emails from the discussion lists/forums to which I belong and post comments/questions as appropriate. 3. Log into my social networking profiles at Facebook, Linked In, SelfGrowth.com, Twitter, and Ning and approve friend requests. 4.
Spend about 15 minutes each at Facebook and SelfGrowth making friend requests, commenting on pictures or videos, or responding to emails. 5. Send 1-2 updates to Twitter and Facebook profiles about what I'm doing at the moment. When you have your Internet marketing action plan outlined with quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily tasks, your prospecting well never runs dry.
Many online business owners are so wrapped up in working on their business that they don't make time to work in the business, like performing regular marketing tasks. Consequently, they often experience slow times in their business because they begin to market themselves only when the prospect pool has dried up. If you create and follow an Internet marketing action plan, you'll never be hungry for clients again! Copyright (c) 2008 OnlineBizU.com.


If your summerhouse or log cabin is used as a living area, we advise you to insulate it. You could use your summerhouse as a garden office, fitness area, extra living room or holiday home. Insulation allows you to enjoy your summerhouse or log cabin in the colder months too. Regardless of how you are going to use it or the weather conditions in your region, we can offer a range of suitable insulation systems.
Of course you can insulate your summerhouse yourself. But if you'd like your summerhouse insulated upon delivery, by a professional, you can choose from our range of insulation systems. For example, you could choose floor insulation, so that you can feel the warmth of the wood on your bare feet. Or do you want roof insulation to keep rising, warm air within the confines of your summerhouse? You could also opt for wall insulation, which is especially useful if you will be using a heater. Of course, you can also combine different insulation types. All Lugarde windows and doors come with double glazing as standard. This makes our summerhouses and log cabins ideal for extra insulation.
Are you thinking of using your garden building all year round? Take a look through our range of summerhouses and log cabins and discover more about our construction systems to find the ideal garden building!


Many parents wonder what a 'typical' schedule looks like for their child. The truth is that every baby is different, but there are some baby nap basics that work for most children six months and older. If you have a younger child, I would encourage you to follow their natural sleepy-time cues for naps and nighttime sleep, and I will write about newborn sleep in a different article.
In order to encourage a healthy nap and nighttime schedule, six months is the perfect time to start employing my 'drowsy but awake' practice, and put your baby to sleep in their crib awake and aware they are being put down. Doing so will begin to teach your baby to put herself to sleep without the need of a sleep crutch such as a bottle, nursing, or rocking.
A Note From The Sleep Lady: Putting your baby to sleep without a sleep crutch is usually easier to begin to employ at bedtimes than naptimes. So if your baby is still relying on a sleep crutch for naps, that's okay for now. Focus on bedtime first, and once you've got that mastered, work on removing the sleep crutch from naptimes.
Between six and eight months, your baby should be taking a minimum of two 1.5 to 2 hour naps or a total of 3-3.5 hours of naps. If your baby is not getting the optimal 1.5 hours per nap, you may want to offer a late afternoon nap just before dinner. The optional third nap should be no longer than an hour to ensure that your baby is ready to sleep again at bedtime. During nap coaching, it is ok to use motion sleep for this third optional nap. This "bonus" nap usually goes away by 9 months if your baby is napping well.
You may have already noticed that your baby begins to give you sleepy cues around 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. and wakes for the day between 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. Often, babies are ready for a nap as soon as 1.5 to 2 hours after the initial wake up, and again in the early afternoon, usually between 2-3 hours from waking from a reasonable morning nap. If your baby hasn't reached this stage yet, don't worry. Start keeping a log in case there is a pattern you are missing and focus on making sure your baby is getting enough daytime sleep for their age.
Sometime between nine and twelve months, your baby will most likely give up their third optional afternoon nap if they were taking one, and transition to just two naps each day. They'll take a shorter, mid morning nap, and a longer, afternoon nap. Be sure that your baby is only napping for about 1.5 hours in the morning. For your twelve month old, the morning nap should be no longer than an hour. Timing at this age is very important. You want to start the afternoon nap approximately three hours after the end of your morning nap. That means asleep within three hours. This is important because if your baby sleeps too long, then she may have trouble falling asleep for the afternoon nap.
For example, your nine month old may wake at 7:00 a.m., take her first nap from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and an afternoon nap beginning at 1:30 p.m., waking between 3:00 and 3:30 p.m.
Your twelve month old may wake at 7:00 a.m., take his first nap from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., and begin the afternoon nap at 1:00 p.m., waking between 3:00 and 3:30 p.m.
A Note from The Sleep Lady: I should mention that this age can be tricky, as your baby is more alert, and also more aware of the world around him, and may not want to stop playing or people watching. This is a great time to encourage quite time before naps. I suggest that you do an abbreviated bedtime routine, and implement the Shuffle for the entire first hour of a nap if necessary to help get your baby to sleep (for babies who only take an hour morning nap, that means that you would do the Shuffle for the entire nap if you are sleep coaching).
As you can see, naps, like your quickly growing baby, are constantly evolving. Be prepared for another naptime change between thirteen and eighteen months, as your baby will likely shift to only needing one nap a day. This nap is typically a two hour-long mid-afternoon nap (perhaps from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.). Hopefully your baby has mastered putting herself to sleep by this last nap change, if not, it's not too late! And the good news? Most toddlers continue this single nap until they are three or four years old, at which time they can transition to quiet time.
1. Look for Nap Readiness.
Watch for your baby's daytime sleep cues. You don't want to wait until she's past the point of tired to encourage a nap.
2. Create a Good Nap Environment.
You want your baby to have some wind down time before her nap to help get her ready to transition into sleep. Try to encourage quiet activities such as reading a book, quiet music, or even nursing or bottle-feeding. Just be careful that your baby doesn't fall asleep while they are eating!
3. A Dark, Quiet Room.
If your baby's room is bright and sunlit, your baby is not going to sleep. Consider room darkening shades, and even a white noise machine to block outside noise to help create a sleep-inducing environment.
4. Naptime is an Abbreviated Bedtime.
Just like at bedtime, naptime is a time for your baby to sleep. Encourage sleep by putting your baby down drowsy but awake.
Remember that during nap coaching you may need to help encourage your baby to sleep, which means you may be checking on her for a full hour. Review The Sleep Lady Shuffle, and know that she will learn to put herself to sleep in a couple weeks.
To read all of the ins and outs of nap coaching, please to check out my book, Good Night, Sleep Tight. Happy Napping!


It's fun fact about Ketchikan time: tourism is the leading industry in this town, followed by fishing. Downtown is mostly comprised of a few streets that snake around the cruise-ship berths that are lined almost entirely with souvenir and jewelry stores. It's an area of town where a bottle of water starts at two bucks. Also, caveat emptor, most of the shops are filled with imported crap, totem poles make in Thailand, native-style jewelry made in China, etc. Most of the jewelry stores and quite a few of the souvenir stores are actually owned by the cruise-ship companies which is why in every port of an Inside Passage cruise you'll find the same things in the same stores. If shopping is your thing, look for stuff that's actually made by natives. Ask which jewelry stores are locally owned. Walk an extra three blocks south to buy your water at Tatsudas.
Or don't. I'm not here to tell you how to live your life.
Anyway, if shopping isn't your thing, there are tons of other tours and activities you can do with an afternoon in Ketchikan. One of the perks of my job is a lot of the tourist excursion companies trade with ours, so on my day off I'll be trying them out and telling you about them.
Our first was Adventure Karts. It was really ridiculously fun.
We all met on the dock in the morning, and were collected with the other Adventure Karters onto a bus. The bus driver gave us a running commentary of little facts about Ketchikan as we drove north out of town to the spot, which is the remnants of an old logging camp. We all dutifully peed one last time and were collected for the obligatory safety speeches and helmet fittings and waiver signings.
"We have rain gear," our guide said, gesturing to a wall of rubber overalls and huge raincoats, "but, you know, we never really use them." We all looked at one another. No one wanted to be the puss in bright yellow overalls.
Then we came outside to get instructions on how to drive the Tomcars, (ridiculously simple. Three gears: Drive, Neutral, Reverse) and what to do if we had engine problems, fell behind, etc.
We'd picked, (or rather whoever does the scheduling in the office picked for us) the perfect day for it. It was one of the almost heartbreakingly perfect Alaska summer days- cool but sunny with blue sky and sea breezes all around, but it had just rained heavily for the three solid days before. Everyone in the know told me the same thing: go in the rain. It's more fun. You'll see.
Ali and I got into one Tomcar and the boys got into another and away we went!
The ride's about three and a half hours long, with breaks to take pictures and look at a waterfall, and change drivers. The trails are along old logging roads that were never paved, and are filled with rocks and potholes and unexpected dips and hills. Because of the recent rain, the potholes and dips were filled with muddy water so every three seconds there was a huge SPLASH that set me and Ali off in shrieks of delight. For most of the tour we were shrieking and laughing.
At the end we all got out of the cars and examined each other. The boys had some small mud spatters on their shoulders and shins. We girls were soaked to the skin in muddy water, and when we'd stood up we found standing muddy water puddles in our seats.
We returned our helmets and the crew had us sign our names on the wall with sharpies. I corrected some of the grammar in previous tags while we waited for the bus driver to take us back to town.
And then we all went out to lunch, as is.
The waitress looked me and Ali up and down.
Retail: none to speak of. Color changing sunglasses and a few key rings.
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Why hates men, women driving cars and fleeing in front of them?
Traditionally in the Egyptian street to accuse women always when driving the car causing the occurrence of many accidents due Btoha in traffic or disrupt the way, are always a cause for ridicule men, despite the fact that most of the studies and statistics confirm that women are better than men in driving the keenness to follow the safety rules and safety when driving.
'Masrawy' tried to know the reasons for hating the man for women driving cars and women's point of view to this prevailing view that abused them.
As Ahmed Fathi 'teacher' opines that cars Alottomatik now made everyone leads easily and like some of them leading man very slowly and a sense of fear and dread and do not have a well-behaved in the sudden and difficult positions and some of them lead very well.
He added: It is possible that the maligned women sometimes slow reaction For example, traffic on the axis occurs when many incidents when the car suddenly stopped and most of the cars which cause led by a girl or woman.
Said Ahmed Mamdouh 'student': sister driving like a lead 'cabriolet' leadership undoubtedly very bad and I think that this method of all car drivers and frankly, I find that their leadership is like a disaster and our Lord is enough evil Soaqthen.
He added: every time I ride with the car I feel scared On one occasion he wanted a people crossing the road as does any person moment Alosr that passed before us and instead of that sister car stopped or slow supplied gasoline and almost terminated his life.
The Menna Abdel Fattah 'student' said: leadership in Egypt generally bad because of the narrow streets and are not eligible for leadership as that men in general and drivers microbuses private whenever a girl driving screaming highest voice 'origin and one Elly Saigh' and many of the quality of these sentences provocative but on Conversely girl keen leadership characterized by extreme calm.
And agree with Salwa Fawzi 'housewife', which says you have to learn to drive until I feel comfortable from بهدلة transportation when urine comes out of school as they help me spend the needs of the house, it is possible to go once a week to a large markets and bought the needs of the whole week without waiting for my husband .
She added: Leading men in general kind of recklessness and speed is calculated, we are suffering a crisis in traffic in general and not women are the cause of road congestion.
As India Numan 'engineer' said: was driving very carefully in order to preserve my safety on the road, but find everyone wants to fly his car despite the congested roads most of the time not to mention the adverse chasing girls when you see anyone.
He added: You may not recognize the minibus drivers who could Attallowa us with curses and because we girls will not be able to respond to them.
As for the views of specialists was with Dr. Sana Badawy Professor of Sociology at the University of Cairo, which said: socialization of the mother is the foundation we have many erroneous cultural traditions that convey the values of men and marginalize the role of women and society still have seen a minor.
She added: women achieved success in various fields and in the most difficult professions became a doctor and an engineer and a judge and other professions to demonstrate that the efficiency and hard work is the basis why criticism simply cash in itself, pointing out that the differences in driving the car because of the variables physiological.
She explained that women driving cars better than men and more focused him, they are keen to carefully first and adhere to traffic rules and that there are no errors committed by society or race without another but commitment to a general rule .. The errors committed by drivers could commit drivers also there are a lot of girls do not Ebaglin instructions leadership and some driving luxury cars and powerful than their abilities physical, and if a man subject without bias will change his point of view and deal with the leadership of women treated quiet and not for being a woman.
She noted that most existing studies on the basis of field reports that women are less committing errors when driving a car and enjoys qualities careful and deliberate and calm while driving and not to rush into decision-making and lack of overtaking and this by virtue of the nature that God created them.
Noteworthy that in a recent German study published in the German city of Stuttgart that women characterized by great force on the steering wheel.
And revealed the study conducted by the European Car Club recently on the occasion of International Women's Day that the percentage of accidents caused by women and ending injuries less than men.
The study showed that in 2010 saw in Germany over 320 thousand traffic accident led to the presence of infected and one or more, and the man is the owner of a ratio of about two-thirds of these incidents.
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Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast
NOAA has now published a final rule designating this sanctuary
Extending from Wisconsin's Port Washington to Two Rivers, this area of Wisconsin-Lake Michigan may become one of our newest national marine sanctuaries. It's one of two sites – Mallows Bay is the other – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is currently evaluating for designation based on a community-driven nomination. This is a landmark moment: these are the first new sanctuaries under consideration by the federal government in 15 years. The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation supports the decision to protect Wisconsin-Lake Michigan and you can raise your voice with us.
Lake Michigan is a destination combining significant marine heritage, recreation and exploration opportunities. The site is home to 39 known shipwrecks, with the potential for more to be found. Fifteen of these vessels are preserved almost completely intact due to the Great Lakes' cold water conditions. Three have standing masts, a rarity among sunken wrecks. Research indicates that the site has over 100 reported vessel losses, indicating that more wrecks lie waiting to be discovered, explored, and protected.
For some, these wrecks are family legends and local lore tied to their ancestry and community in addition to their national historic importance. These hallowed waters harbor vessels lost to the treacherous waters and weather of the lakes. For others, they serve as popular locations for diving, boating, fishing, recreation, and heritage tourism contributing revenue to the local economy.
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Female students across Afghanistan were crushed by news that their return to senior schools was to be postponed by the Taliban on March 23. The future of young women at institutions such as the Edrak Institute of Higher Education (pictured) remains bleak. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/UN Women)
Dark futures: Afghanistan's women reel from Taliban school ban
U-turn on female education jeopardizes international legitimacy and economic recovery
KANIKA GUPTA and SARA PERRIA, Contributing writers April 6, 2022 06:00 JST | Afghanistan
KABUL -- Anbaren, a bold and ambitious 16-year-old, was born in what was an age of optimism for Afghanistan. Her life plans were neatly organized, just like the bedroom she shares with her older sister. Following a rigorous schedule of school and extracurricular classes to prepare for the exams required to enter public universities, she had dreams to study computer science in Washington D.C. with her best friend.
But last Aug. 15, Anbaren's life was put on hold, as the Taliban rolled into Kabul, white flags fluttering from their pickup trucks and toting Kalashnikovs. Her best friend left the country, leaving Anbaren staring at an uncertain future. She has been unable to leave home due to increasing hostility toward women on the streets.
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