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Mattachine Society & Daughters of Bilitis Offices
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Activism & Politics Social Gathering Manhattan Midtown West & Theater District 1950s 1960s Lesbian Gay Organization & Community Spaces
From about 1959 to 1968, this building near Madison Square was the location of the offices of the Mattachine Society of New York, an early and leading American homophile group.
Another pioneering homophile group, the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, shared office space with Mattachine until September 1961.
Entrance of 1133 Broadway, 2016. Photo by Christopher D. Brazee/NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
Two views of 1133 Broadway, 2016. Photos by Christopher D. Brazee/NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
1133 Broadway. Source: Kew Management website.
Flyer for a 1963 ECHO convention in Philadelphia. Source unknown.
Flyer for DOB beach party appearing in the DOB Newsletter, August 1968. Source: Archives of Sexuality & Gender.
DOB's 1133 Broadway office address noted in the very first DOB Newsletter, May-June 1959. Source: Archives of Sexuality & Gender.
Barbara Gittings's autograph on a page from "Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context," edited by Vern L. Bullough (2002). Collection of Jay Shockley.
Barbara Gittings with Isabel Miller (Alma Routsong) at a kissing booth at the American Library Association conference, Dallas, 1971. Photo by Kay Lahusen (also sometimes credited under her pseudonym, Kay Tobin). Courtesy of The New York Public Library.
Barbara Gittings working on the Daughters of Bilitis New York Newsletter at her place of work in Philadelphia, 1962. Photo by Kay Lahusen (also sometimes credited under her pseudonym, Kay Tobin). Courtesy of The New York Public Library.
Mattachine Society song for the 1966 Reminder day. Courtesy of the Foster Gunnison, Jr. Papers. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
Postcard addressed to the Mattachine Society right after they moved to 1133 Broadway. Courtesy of The New York Public Library.
Mattachine Society button. Source unknown.
Mattachine Society of New York business card, c. 1959-68. Source: Private collection.
Notice for the Mattachine Forum in the Village Voice newspaper, April 13, 1967
Mattachine Society of New York ad, c. 1959-68. Source unknown.
Frank Kameny with protest signs (including one from the Mattachine Society at left), June 2009. Source: upclosed.com
Dick Leitsch, president of Mattachine Society of New York, at its offices, December 30, 1965. Photo by Louis Liotta/New York Post. Source: NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images.
In the nearly two decades prior to the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) – both founded in California, in 1950 and 1955, respectively – were early and leading American homophile groups. The term "homophile" was then in common use for gay and lesbian organizations. In the conservative post-World War II era they were considered quite radical for campaigning for the rights of gay men and lesbians to simply exist openly in society without fear of arrest or persecution.
The Mattachine Society of New York was formed in December 1955 by Tony Segura and Sam Morford, and the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis was founded in 1958 by Barbara Gittings and Marion Glass. Among the important issues they raised were the roles of government, religion, and psychiatry as major agents of oppression, and DOB chapter president Gittings called on libraries to be positive forces for change by offering appropriate books for young people grappling with their sexuality.
The Mattachine Society's offices were located in 1133 Broadway from at least April 1959 to July 1968, first in Room 304 and later in Room 412. Soon after its founding, DOB New York shared Mattachine's space, until September 1961. Under the innovative leadership of president Dick Leitsch (who was in that role from 1964 to 1972), Mattachine challenged the State Liquor Authority's ban on serving gay people at the famous Sip-In at Julius' bar in April 1966, and worked to stop police entrapment of gay men. Mattachine worked behind the scenes with political officials, such as Mayor John V. Lindsay and Commission on Human Rights chairman William H. Booth, to reduce oppressive policies against the community. These actions helped to improve the lives of LGBT New Yorkers and paved the way for future political work.
By at least 1965, East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO) shared Mattachine's offices. This was due to the fact that its conference in September of that year was in New York, at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel, and that Leitsch was the conference coordinator. Founded in 1963, ECHO was the first regional American federation of gay rights groups. ECHO sponsored the famous July 4th Annual Reminders at Independence Hall in Philadelphia from 1965 to 1969.
Architect or Builder: Bruce Price
1969 The Year of Gay Liberation: The Mattachine Society of New York and Daughters of Bilitis," The New York Public Library, on.nypl.org/2gtezZx.
Daniel Hurewitz, Stepping Out: Nine Walks Through New York City's Gay and Lesbian Past (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997).
Marcia M. Gallo, Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2007).
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, research files.
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I'm delighted to announce my new Solo Show 2018 will be held at Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath. The exhibition opens Monday 19 November. If you can't make the private view on Saturday 17 November 6-8pm, the exhibition runs until 22 December.
For my Solo Show 2018 I'll be featuring a significant new body of work, including Brief Encounter (above) depicting an encounter between an African bull elephant and herd. I will also be exhibiting a pack of new wild dog sculptures (below), Asiatic bear sculptures inspired by my recent visit to Animals Asia in Vietnam, and a number of other new works.
My Solo Show 2018 provides a rare opportunity to view a large collection of my animal sculptures in one place. The historic Georgian city of Bath is a wonderful place to visit. Why not visit for the weekend and pick up an animal sculpture in time for Christmas? I always enjoy meeting new and existing clients and look forward to talking with some of you soon.


Boasting beautiful views over Devonport to the Bass Strait beyond, this impressive home has far more than may first meet the eye.
First listed on 17 April, this house has been on Domain for 9 days (last updated on 17 April). 5 other 5 bedroom house in Devonport have recently been sold. There are currently 4 properties for sale in Devonport.
5 sales this year for 5 bedroom Houses in Devonport, market performance data requires a minimum of 10 sales.


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Georgetown University | School of Foreign Service in Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
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Center for International and Regional Studies Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Location: Doha, State of Qatar
Term: August 2012-July 2013
The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar's Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) invites applications for the 2012-2013 post-doctoral fellowship. The fellowship will support a recent Ph.D. recipient in any discipline working on the Middle East. Priority is given to projects with demonstrated relevance to the Persian Gulf.
The fellow resides at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. In the absence of teaching responsibilities, the fellow is expected to work on turning his or her dissertation into a book manuscript for publication. Normally, post-doctoral fellows also prepare a manuscript to be considered for publication in the CIRS Occasional Paper series. The recipient participates fully in the academic and intellectual life of the CIRS and Georgetown University-Qatar, including delivering occasional lectures and taking part in the CIRS's academic seminars and conferences.
Georgetown University post-doctoral fellows also benefit from interaction with a community of scholars in Education City who teach in the other branch campuses of Carnegie-Mellon University, Northwestern University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University College-London.
The term of the award runs August 1, 2012, through July 31, 2013. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. (in hand) between August 1, 2009 and July 31, 2012. The fellow will be given access to the University's library, office space and equipment, and administrative support. Pending review of the final draft of the book manuscript, CIRS may provide support for a subvention agreement with a reputable academic press.
Compensation, benefits and other terms of employment are highly competitive. The package includes stipend, housing, roundtrip airfare to Doha, health insurance, and car allowance.
Review of applications begins January 5, 2012.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation (including one from the chair of the dissertation committee), and a short synopsis of the Ph.D. dissertation. Also, candidates should provide a statement outlining the precise nature of the intended work during the period of the fellowship, the final product's significance for the relevant literature, and when the completion of the project for publication may be expected.
Please submit application materials to cirspositions@georgetown.edu.
Applications or supporting materials may be sent as well to:
Dr. John T. Crist
CIRS Associate Director of Research
3300 Whitehaven Street, NW, Suite 2100
Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

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Nokia announced it intends to purchase Oz Communications, the Canadian mobile e-mail and IM company, MocoNews reports, in a move that will further strengthen the carrier's growing software platform.
The article said that Oz was founded about five years ago, and has raised $71 million in three rounds. Currently, the company's mobile IM, e-mail and social networking services are used by Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Rogers Wireless, and Telenor, while portals such as Yahoo, MSN, and AOL make use of its e-mail platform.


In a fruitful dialogue, company executives discussed with the local community the upgrade and expansion of the airport and the prospects for tourism growth.
Argostoli – As part of a series of events hosted by Fraport Greece in the 14 areas where the airports it manages are located, company executives visited the island and city of Kefalonia.
In an atmosphere of mutual co-operation, Fraport Greece presented to more than 70 stakeholders and local government representatives its €27 million plans for the overhaul and upgrade of the airport.
More specifically, as announced, the company will proceed to the construction of a new terminal, the reorganisation of the apron area and the refurbishment of the airside pavement.
At the same time, the check-in stations will increase by 71% (from 7 to 12), the total number of gates by 100% (from 3 to 6) and the airport security and control points will be doubled (from 2 to 4).
With the aim of developing close relations of trust and transparency with all stakeholders and the local community, Fraport Greece executives discussed the airports role to the tourist growth and prosperity of Kefalonia.


The winning streaming service will have local content, he believes.
The NAB panel "Byron Allen: Playing to Win in the Digital Revolution" put media player Allen up on stage in Vegas. Allen recently marked a year as owner of The Weather Channel, and spoke excitedly of a virtual throw-in in the deal, streaming news service Local Now. With more big players entering the streaming game, he said one with a strong local component will win.
"Local Now is an unstoppable beast," he said.
Allen described his childhood in Detroit, his father working for Ford, and the family relocating to Los Angeles after the Detroit riots. His mother got work as a tour guide at NBC, and Allen would frequently accompany her. "I witnessed the making of television," he said.
Allen embarked on a standup career, taking the stage at The Comedy Store when he was 14, and co-hosting Real People years later.
He later learned more about the television business from Al Masini, creator of Entertainment Tonight. "He taught me to create and sell TV shows," said Allen.
Allen acquired The Weather Channel from Blackstone Group, Bain Capital and Comcast just over a year ago for $310 million. He said Local Now, which streams local news, weather, sports and traffic to subscribers for free, was part of the deal, and hardly on his radar screen when the deal closed.
Allen is mighty bullish on Local News these days. "We just passed our one billionth viewed minute on a streaming service no one knows about," he said.
Expect Local Now to be in the running for an NFL package a few years down the road, Allen said. "Game over," he said if Local Now lands football.
The big streaming services don't pay much, if any, attention to local content. Allen said that's a mistake. "No one is going to win the streaming war without localization," said Allen.


Perhaps it was a naïve, romantic notion to attempt to build a community where rich and poor people live side by side as neighbors. The bankers I contacted certainly thought so. Their consensus was clear: no lender in his right mind would invest good money in a bad neighborhood to build new homes, especially with one-third of them designated affordable. We had the land and we had the vision. Lots of vision. On our survey we had laid out twelve larger homes, twelve of modest size, and twelve small, volunteer built houses - all interspersed to achieve a healthy socio-economic and racial mix. We were long on idealism but short on money! And money, given the scowls on bankers faces, was not likely to be forthcoming. That was fifteen years ago, before Atlanta's inner-city became a hot housing market, before mixed-income development had proven to be economically viable, before the red-lining practices of Atlanta banks had been exposed. It was the persistent digging of an ambitious young investigative reporter that suddenly turned the tables. Sifting through years of lending data and plotting loans on census maps, the reporter uncovered a quite illegal, industry-wide pattern of red-lining - the systematic exclusion of "certain areas" from banks' lending portfolios. No sooner did this exposé hit the press than we were quite miraculously inundated with lenders who expressed great interest in our "innovative idea" of mixed-income community development. The first loan to be made from the hastily assembled Atlanta Mortgage Consortium was for our thirty-six home, mixed-income development. Over the following decade and a half the Tapestry Community (as neighbors named it) would become a sociological and economic proving ground, a living laboratory to test the viability of mixed-income community.
Our "innovative idea", we would discover, was not that innovative after all. In fact it was a very old idea that had endured centuries of testing in village and city life all around the world. In the very same neighborhood where we built our Tapestry Community, mixed-income housing had worked very effectively a half-century earlier. Many of the grand homes that lined wide boulevards had small cottages in the rear where domestic help lived. Around the corner on smaller streets were rows of charming bungalows, interlaced with modest apartment dwellings. For very pragmatic reasons, wealth and workforce, landowner and labor lived in close proximity - they needed what each brought to the life of the community. And this was a norm, not an exception.
It has only been in recent history, since the automobile transformed us into a society of commuters, that we have had the luxury of living in stratified enclaves among people of the same class, color and social status. And homogeneity has sold well. Despite the establishment of laws forbidding racial segregation, we have found ways to distance ourselves from those who are culturally and socio-economically different. We have learned just how profitable the economy of separation can be and have created new lending norms to support it. As I learned fifteen years ago, prevailing real estate wisdom had come to believe that small homes would hold down the value of larger ones and the presence of low-income residents would substantially limit appreciation.
But the economies of separation have finally reached their point of diminishing returns. Sprawl has overtaken us. Workers and owners now sit in the same traffic jams, breathing the same fumes, wasting the same precious hours as they inch their way toward the same workplace. The "wider-highway" solution of the automobile era has now been exposed as myth. Smart-growth, new-urbanism, clean-air discussions all point to the same conclusion: workforce and workplace must find their way back into proximity.
I was recently asked to serve on our new mayor's Affordable Housing Taskforce. Mayor Franklin has seen the importance of mixed-income housing development in Atlanta and has commissioned a taskforce to study best practices and come up with policy recommendations for the city. In addition to the obvious need to streamline the building permitting process and remove bureaucratic obstacles to development, the group has focused on housing strategies to bring workers, managers and owners into closer living and working relationships. Inclusionary zoning is one promising solution, one that the taskforce is strongly recommending.
Inclusionary zoning policy would require that a percentage of "workforce housing" be included in any new residential development in the city. Of course, care must be taken not to discourage life-giving real estate development - that could kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. To make the numbers work (a significant challenge in high rent districts), the city can offer density bonuses, property tax abatement, infrastructure improvement, impact fee waivers and an assortment of other inducements. The time is ripe for a well-conceived policy of mixed-income development that accommodates executives and secretaries, school teachers and CEO's, peace officers and building owners all within the same community. Inclusionary zoning offers a time-tested promise to a city of weary commuters ready to relearn the practicality and richness of living with diversity.


Our Itsy Bitsy Spider Halloween series continues with refreshing black widow lemonade, aka iced blackberry pomegranate lemonade. This beautiful drink is really easy to make. Firstly, cook a delicious blackberry sauce and pomegranate infusion (pomegranate fruit tea). Then layer both liquids with ample amounts of crushed ice in tall tumbler glasses, which creates a stunning ombré effect ranging from black to red. I also threw a few frozen blackberries in to increase the creep factor. The lemonade is more on the sweeter side. Just double the amount of lemon juice if you prefer a little more zest. You can apply printable stickers from our Halloween collection to decorate the glasses. This a great drink to serve at a Halloween get-together and enjoy with your friends. And since this lemonade is so, so good, I'll continue making it all year long.
Fancy a drink? I dare you to take a sip from my black widow lemonade! Watch the video recipe to see how we make this tasty concoction.
To create a beautiful ombré effect, I recommend crushed ice, ice nuggets (pellets) or small ice cubes rather than large ice cubes. And if you're in a rush, simply use a jar of store-bought blackberry berry or blackcurrant jam instead of the homemade sauce.
Put the blackberries, sugar, and lemon juice into a saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until the sugar has dissolved and the liquid is slightly syrupy. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a jug or bowl. Discard the solids. Place in refrigerator to cool for one to two hours.
Brew 1 litre (4 cups) pomegranate tea according to the manufacture's instructions and let cool completely. Alternatively, use ready-to-drink fruit tea from the store.
Attach Halloween stickers to 6 tall tumbler glasses. Spoon 4 to 5 tablespoon blackberry sauce into a glass. The fill the tumbler with crushed ice and 2 to 3 frozen blackberries and pour the pomegranate infusion over the ice. Garnish with a paper straw and serve immediately.


Are you considering a trip to Amsterdam for Discovery Summit Europe? You'll likely need permission from your manager, so we've put together a kit to help justify the conference.
The kit includes a letter template for formal requests. Every decision maker will require different information before giving the OK, so be sure to alter this template to fit your needs. The red text indicates where you will need to fill in details.
We hope this helps demonstrate the value of attending the Summit and that you will receive approval to attend in no time!


We're celebrating International Women's Day all month long at Maestro Health, because one day just wasn't enough. One of the ways we've been celebrating gender diversity in our workforce is through our "mCHATs" with some of the women at Maestro Health, where we discuss everything from careers, role models and overcoming obstacles. Next up is Bridget Houser, Accounting Supervisor.
I studied Accounting and International Business at Indiana University. After graduation, I sat for the CPA exams and became a CPA. I started my career in public accounting at Ernst & Young and then spent two years working at Frontenac, a Private Equity firm in Chicago. I've now been with Maestro Health, where I'm an Accounting Supervisor, for three years.
Care to share some fun facts about yourself?
I worked at Cold Stone Creamery for 5 years and loved every minute of it!
The best career advice that I've been given is that at the end of the day, work is about the relationships that you're creating. It's important to be learning and to be an efficient, productive employee, however, it's also important to be building and nurturing relationships along the way.
Are there any books you've read lately that have inspired you?
I recently read Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss. It's a compilation of advice from various business leaders, celebrities, health gurus, etc. The people featured in the book share their personal success and failure stories and how they got to where they are today. My main take-away from the book is that everyone has their own path to success and 'success' looks different to different people. The things that work for some might not work for others and that's okay. Reading about 'successful' people's pathway to success and the failures/challenges that they've overcome was very inspirational.
Outside of Maestro Health, I am a part of the Core Power Yoga community. I recently became certified as a yoga instructor through Core Power Yoga. Being a part of this community has given me a healthy hobby and a place to be surrounded by like-minded people who inspire me to be a better person. It has also helped to give me a work-life balance and a place to recharge outside of work. I am excited to give back to this community by teaching classes and helping other students gain what I've gained through yoga.
I also volunteer at Park Community Church in the kids care room so that parents can drop their kids while they attend service. I enjoy spending time with the kids and am happy to give hard-working parents an hour break in their week!
I like that I'm surrounded by smart, hard-working people who also value a good work culture. I find that people at Maestro Health truly embody our core values: biz-love, fun, preparedness, teamwork, kindness, humility, urgency, bold thought and honesty.
It's important to set goals and to write them down. Though your career likely won't progress in a straight line, it's important to lay out a roadmap of where you think you want to go. Equally important is setting aside time to reevaluate these goals as they will likely evolve over time. Having a mentor, ideally outside of your place of work, is also important as you'll receive professional/personal advice from someone who's already been where you are.


The Restaurant OSHA Safety and Security textbook is THE book of best practices and industry standards for restaurants.
The Manager Workbook contains everything that a restaurant owner, manager, or executive needs to fully complete the Management Level Course in any form.
The English Version Employee Workbook contains everything that an English-speaking restaurant employee needs to complete the Employee Level Course in any form.
The Spanish Version Employee Workbook contains everything that a Spanish-speaking restaurant employee needs to complete the Employee Level Course in any form.
This exam will comprehensively test a Management-Level student's knowledge of our curriculum.
This exam will comprehensively test an Employee-Level student's knowledge of our curriculum.
This exam will comprehensively test a Spanish-speaking Employee-Level student's knowledge of the ROSSI Curriculum.
This key will allow you to grade the Final Exam for the Management Level Course.
This key will allow you to grade the final exam found in the Employee-Level Course.
This key will allow you to grade the final exam found in the Spanish Edition of the Employee-Level Course.
This key will allow you to grade the Quizzes found in the Management-Level Workbook.
This key will allow you to grade the Quizzes found in the Employee-Level Workbook.
This key will allow you to grade the Quizzes found in the Spanish Edition of the Employee-Level Workbook.
Print off, fill out, and present each manager with a custom certificate of completion.
A wallet-sized version of the Manager Completion Certificate. Print out and present.
Print off, fill out, and present each employee with a custom certificate of completion.
A wallet-sized version of the Employee Completion Certificate. Print out and present.
A series of videos comprehensively covering the Restaurant OSHA curriculum.


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Serious Outage
Incident Report for TaxCloud
Conclusion: As of June 1 at 5:18 pm EDT TaxCloud resumed normal operational status for all services.
Incident Summary: At 6:02 pm EDT on May 31, 2016 TaxCloud suffered a severe service outage caused by a calculated and malicious attack. The root source of the incident has been identified, vulnerabilities have been eliminated, and new protections are in place. TaxCloud has preserved important information and is assisting with forensic investigations now underway.
What We Know for Certain: No payment information or exemptions certificate information was compromised. Neither were any passwords compromised. All this data remained secure and protected.
Client Impact: Most merchant accounts have been recovered and are now fully accessible. However, some accounts created after February 14, 2016 may not yet be available. We are working to recover these accounts and will be reaching out directly to our customers who remain affected.
Recommended Actions:
If you can access your account online, you are good to go for all future transactions, although we do suggest you change your password. See item 3 below.
If your account was created after February 14, 2016 and you've been affected, you can quickly and easily reestablish your service by creating a new TaxCloud account using the same email address and other information previously registered with TaxCloud. We will ensure this new account information is properly reconciled with any account information subsequently recovered during our restoration efforts.
While all passwords are encrypted in our systems and that data remained secure, we suggest you change your passwords as a standard advisable precaution for situations such as these. If you can access your account online, you can change your password by following this link. If you are recreating your account, you will be able to establish a new password during that process.
We're Here to Help: If you'd like to call, we're glad to talk. Feel free to phone us at 206-452-1686, but we kindly ask for your patience. Despite increasing our ability to handle higher call volumes, we believe in ensuring each customer receives all the attention they need and some callers require more assistance than others.
Key Message: We refuse to be intimidated by bad guys, nor will we be deterred from our mission to provide you and all retailers with free and easy-to-use sales tax processing. You deserve reliable, accurate, and headache-free service. We apologize for the inconvenience and we thank you for your understanding and support.
TaxCloud has returned to normal operational status for all services.
Most merchant accounts have been recovered and are accessible. However, some accounts created after February 14, 2016, may not be available at present. We are working to recover those accounts affected, but in the meantime, you can create a new account (using the same email address as previously registered with TaxCloud).
19 Hours in.
We are diligently working to return to normal operations this afternoon.
We have identified the root cause of this incident and have taken steps preserve important information and data to assist the various investigations now underway.
Thank you for your generous outpouring of support while we are collectively enduring this unfortunate incident.
We are now 11 hours into this incident, and we still do not have an exact ETA on TaxCloud's return to normal operations. Thank you for your understanding while our investigation and remediation efforts continue.
No good news to report at this time. TaxCloud has suffered a calculated and catastrophic attack. The good news is no customer data has been compromised. The bad news is that it may take another 12 hours to return to normal operations. The moral of the story at this point: apparently offering free tax compliance services attracts enemies.
We will be back as soon as possible.
Thank you for your support and understanding.
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All of our steaks are USDA Choice cuts, perfectly seasoned and cooked to order. Served with your choice of two side kicks or one side kick and a side salad or cup of loaded potato soup.
Whether we fry, blacken or pan-sauté it, our seafood meets the same high standards that apply to our steaks. Enjoy! Add a side salad or cup of loaded potato soup.
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The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of allegedly using his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir el-Rufai, to influence the postponement of the governorship election in order to buy time to rig the poll.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had, last Thursday, postponed the election from September 10 to September 28, citing security reports received by the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Security over threats by insurgents to cause violence during the exercise.
The Edo State PDP chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, at a press briefing on Wednesday in Benin, claimed that the party received information from the Government House that the Kaduna State governor allegedly influenced a national commissioner of the INEC to postpone the election.
El-Rufai is the Deputy Chairman of the National Campaign Council of the APC for the Edo State governorship election.
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Handbook of Bottom Founded Offshore StructuresPart 1. General features of offshore structures and theoretical background Jan H. Vugts
Handbook of Bottom Founded Offshore Structures aantal
This Handbook is intended to help offshore engineers acquire and sustain relevantexpertise in some notoriously difficult subjects. It attempts to stimulate reflection
and critical evaluation of the models used and the strengths and weaknes ses ofthe solutions found. While dealing more specifically with bottom founded structures, the material is generally applicable to offshore structures of all types.
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Offshore Engineering continues to develop and expand rapidly. While in the public eye its focus has shifted towards subsea and floating developments in ever deeper waters, bottom founded structures are still at the industry's heart. The fixed structure remains its dependable workhorse and even today newly installed fixed structures far outnumber subsea and floating applications. Additionally, the knowledge and technology that have (literally) pushed the boundaries of Offshore Engineering into ever more demanding environments and water depths have been largely pioneered by bottom founded structures.
An engineer's central skill is to develop coherent and balanced models for the problems encountered. Regrettably, due to availability of ever more sophisticated computer applications this expertise is at risk of getting lost, and adopting computer outcomes without truly understanding the models and their limitations is naive, risky and unprofessional. Therefore, every engineer needs fundamental knowledge and understanding of underlying theories and technologies.
This Handbook is intended to help offshore engineers acquire and sustain relevant expertise in some notoriously difficult subjects. It attempts to stimulate reflection and critical evaluation of the models used and the strengths and weaknesses of the solutions found. While dealing more specifically with bottom founded structures, the material is generally applicable to offshore structures of all types. The Handbook can be used as a textbook for Master's students and as a manual and reference guide for practising professionals.
Jan Vugts graduated in 1963 as a naval architect from Delft University of Technology and continued research in its Hydromechanics Lab before joining Shell as a Ph.D. in 1970. He spent over 25 years developing and practising the offshore trade in the US, Brunei Darus Salam, Aberdeen and The Hague, and a decade teaching it as a professor of Offshore Engineering in Delft. He was a major contributor to the ISO 19900 series of offshore structures standards. His many contributions to the field earned him, among others, the Research Prize of the Royal Institution of Engineers in The Netherlands, honorary membership of its Offshore Department, and a place in the ASCE Hall of Fame for OTC papers that pioneered innovation and had lasting impact.
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Home Data and Evidence India Has World's Highest Number Of Stunted Children, Child Workers
Indo-Asian News Service, IndiaSpend,
India with the highest number of stunted children and child labourers in the world fared badly on most indicators.
By Swagata Yadavar/ IndiaSpend.org
India now has the highest number of children stunted due to malnutrition — 48.2 million, equivalent to the population of Colombia, as per the latest global report on childhood. Also, 31 million of its children are a part of its workforce, the highest number in the world.
These two factors, along with early marriage and parenthood and lack of education, have pushed India to 116th position among 172 nations assessed for threats to childhood, according to the recent Stolen Childhoods report by Save the Children, an international non-profit working for marginalised and deprived children.
Globally, 700 million children have had their childhood curtailed early, said the report which was released on June 1, the eve of International Children's Day.
Three of India's neighbouring countries did better on the index — Sri Lanka was ranked 61, Bhutan, 93 and Myanmar, 112. Nepal (134), Bangladesh (134) and Pakistan (148) fared worse than India.
The index focuses on a set of life-changing events and uses certain indicators to assess countries: Mortality among children under five years of age, malnutrition that stunts growth, lack of education, child labour, early marriage, adolescent births, displacement by conflict and child homicide.
Stunted growth is caused by chronic malnutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child's life, from early pregnancy to age two. India reports highest figures for stunting and one-third of all girls in the country suffer the condition, according to the report.
"Chronic malnutrition at this stage of life is largely irreversible, and stunted children face a lifetime of lost opportunities in education and work. They are also more likely to succumb to illness and disease, and can die as a result," the report said.
Only one child among 10 in India gets adequate nutrition, India Spend had reported in May 2017.
As a result, mortality is high among children under five years of age. Nearly half of all deaths in children under five years of age are attributable to malnutrition according to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Also, one child in every 21 dies before reaching the fifth birthday in India.
For every 1,000 live births, 50 children under five die, a figure comparable to the poorer African island nation of Madagascar.
In India, 18.6 per cent of children are out of school in the primary and secondary age group and 47 million youth of upper secondary age are not in school, said the report.
Children who are excluded from primary education will earn significantly less over their lifetimes than their educated peers. "The economic cost of not educating these out-of-school children — estimated at 0.3 to 15.2 per cent of GDP in these countries — is far greater than what it would cost to achieve universal primary education" the report said.
Among Indian children in the 4-14 years group, 11.8 per cent are working. That is 31 million children, the highest in the world.
Children working to support their families don't just miss out on education, they also miss out on rest, play and recreation. They lose opportunities to engage with their community, and participate in cultural, religious and sports activities. This effectively means missing out on childhood.
Half of all children in India living on the streets or from coming from homeless families work for a living — at construction sites, hotels — and do not study.
In India, 21.1 per cent of all girls between 15 to 19 years are married while 103 million girls were married before they turned 18, according to the report.
Early marriage has devastating consequences for a girl's life, effectively ending her childhood by forcing her into adulthood and motherhood before she is physically and mentally ready. Child brides frequently feel disempowered and are deprived of their rights to health, education and safety.
"Child brides are at greater risk of experiencing dangerous complications in pregnancy and childbirth, contracting HIV/AIDS and suffering domestic violence. With little access to education and economic opportunities, they and their families are more likely to live in poverty," the report said.
Further, 23.3 girls per 1,000 gave birth between ages 15 and 19, as per the report. Early childbearing impacts the nation's economy and communities.
If adolescents in India waited till their 20s to become mothers, they would have greater economic productivity of up to $7.7 billion or Rs 49,600 crore, the report calculated.
(In arrangement with IndiaSpend.org, a data-driven, non-profit, public interest journalism platform, with whom Swagata Yadavar is principal correspondent. The views expressed are those of IndiaSpend. Feedback at respond@indiaspend.org. You can read the report here: http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/india-has-worlds-highest-number-of-stunted-children-child-workers-18579)
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Ex-SDG&E Employee Arraigned in Deadly Hit-and-Run Crash
Hector Hoyt, 55, is charged with felony hit and run
By R. Stickney	• Published January 30, 2014 • Updated on January 30, 2014 at 5:50 pm
The former San Diego Gas and Electric employee accused of hitting a man with his work truck and leaving him in the street to die has just been arraigned in court.
Hector Hoyt, 55, did not speak to members of the media waiting outside the San Diego County Courthouse in El Cajon Thursday morning.
Hoyt faces a felony hit-and-run charge in connection with the Jan. 6 crash on Jamacha Road that killed 54-year-old pedestrian Robert Fisher.
Prosecutors claim Hoyt was behind the wheel of an SDG&E truck that struck Fisher while he was crossing Jamacha.
Then, Hoyt is accused of leaving the scene with Fisher lying in the middle of the street.
Moments later, a second, separate vehicle accidentally ran Fisher over again.
Hoyt was booked into jail last Wednesday and later released.
He was not working at the time of the incident.
SDG&E said Hoyt is no longer employed there and that it is participating fully with authorities.
Court documents reveal Hoyt was convicted of driving under the influence in 2005 though it's unclear if he was employed by SDG&E then or if he was intoxicated the night he's accused in the hit and run.
The Fisher family's attorney said the victim's mother believes the charge is not strong enough.
Even though there was some estrangement from the family and Fisher had been living a transient lifestyle, his family still held onto hope that things would change in the future according to the victim's uncle.


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Q: C# Loop trough every property in class I've made a class containing everything from the json file.
Now I want to loop trough every object within this object so I can for fill the application with those values.
I want to scroll trough every CM0xx and use that description:

I hope my goal is clear with that screenshot.
I know that I have to do something like
foreach(CM0XX step in Stepsss)

but that simply wont work.
If making a list<string[]> for it is easier from a json but im clueless for the solution.
this is the code I have now. And the json file ive converted is generated so that should be fine.
string testdata = File.ReadAllText(Application.StartupPath + "\\TestData\\SSH.json");
Root JsonDecoded = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Root>(testdata);
testSteps Stepsss = JsonDecoded.SmartShoulder.TestSteps;

foreach (testSteps step in Stepsss)
{
}

this is part of the json. there are alot more CM012

    public class CM181
    {
        public string Name;
        public string description;
        public string minValue;
        public string maxValue;
        public string unit;
        public string instructions;
        public string prerequisites;
    }

    public class Root
    {
        public kkkk kk;
    }

    public class kkkk
    {
        public string preset;
        public testSteps TestSteps;
    }

    public class testSteps
    {
        public CM011 CM011;
}

A: You could use reflection to loop through the names and the values.  If you just need the items under TestSteps, this should work.  If you need a full hierarchy, that is a bit more involved.  Here is an example below and the fiddle to it:
using System;
using System.Reflection;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var record = new Root()
        {
            Foo = "foo",
            Bar = "bar"
        };

        PropertyInfo[] rootProperties = typeof(Record).GetProperties();
        foreach (PropertyInfo property in rootProperties)
        {
            var value = property.GetValue(record);
            Console.WriteLine(property.Name + " - " + value);

        }
    }
}

public class Root
{
    public string Foo {get;set;}
    public string Bar {get;set;}

}

A: Making a class to deserialize to is generally done to avoid the need to loop through all the properties. You've defined all the properties in the class, so you can just use them.  It's a lot of overhead to use reflection to put all the values into a class, then again using reflection to pull them back out. That's why Newtonsoft has JToken/JObject/JArray classes.
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

...
// parse your JSON
var jo = JObject.Parse(jsonString);

// go through all properties
// just for an example, I put them all in a dictionary

var dict = new Dictionary<String, JToken>()
foreach( JProperty p in jo.Properties() ) {
    dict.Add(p.Name, p.Value)
}

Now, each Value is a JToken, which could actually be another JObject, or a JArray or just a simple token.  You can check JToken.Type to see what type the property really has, and do something logical accordingly.

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Fox News Host Shep Smith Says Network's Opinion Commentators Are 'Strictly' for Entertainment and 'Don't Really Have Rules'
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The former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes, right, and anchor Shepard Smith (via satellite) speak during the 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour. GETTY/Frederick M. Brown
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Fox News host Shepard Smith said his network's opinion commentators are "strictly to be entertaining," and don't "really have rules."
"Some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining," the anchor told Time magazine. Smith added that he doesn't watch much opinion programming and told the magazine, "I'm busy."
"I get that. I don't work there. I wouldn't work there," he continued. "I don't want to sit around and yell at each other and talk about your philosophy and my philosophy. That sounds horrible to me."
In the article—titled, "Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News"—Smith says different hosts have different fidelities. Speaking about Sean Hannity, whose eponymous show was the best-performing television news program last month, Smith said, "We serve different masters."
"We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules," he said. "They don't really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it's their opinion."
Smith, 54, was among the inaugural reporters when the network launched in 1996 and inked a new contract with Fox News, executive chairman Rupert Murdoch announced on Thursday.
"Shepard Smith is an exemplary journalist whose skill in anchoring breaking news is unrivaled. His powerful storytelling on both television and digital platforms has elevated our entire news gathering process," Murdoch said.
The veteran host "honored to continue to call Fox News my home," according to The Hill.
"I am incredibly proud to be part of a group of journalists who helped build the Fox news division from scratch 22 years ago and extremely thankful for the opportunity to continue to lead our breaking news coverage for years to come," Smith said.
"Our team's commitment to delivering facts to our loyal viewers in context and with perspective, without fear or favor, is unwavering," Smith said. "I am excited for the future and honored to continue to call Fox News my home."
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Have a plan. Make up a checklist of items that have to be handled – check the filter, check the fence around the pool, balance the pH, add the chlorine to the proper level. Then work through the checklist. Don't consider the maintenance done until all the items are checked off. It's easy to get distracted and think "I'll get around to it later," until one day you come home, walk out into the pool area, and discover a green scum on top of the pool that wasn't there before. Or you discover that the pool pump hasn't been working properly, and the water looks murky and brown. The longer issues are allowed to go on, the worse they get. A regular plan can make sure things are handled on a regular and routine basis.
Work that plan. Do you use a calendar? It's a great way to schedule pool maintenance. Google Calendar for instance, is a great way to set up and schedule time for the pool, and allows you to add a reminder. That way, the pool maintenance doesn't get overlooked or ignored. It's easy to see pool maintenance on the schedule, and since you're not that excited about it anyway, let it slide for today. "I really had to get the kids to soccer practice – I just couldn't get around to the pool." Experience will prove that ignoring problems doesn't make them go away on their own. They have to be handled, and adhering to the plan will make life a lot easier in the long run.
Be regular about pool maintenance. The key to a pristine pool with wonderful clear water is regular, routine care. If a pool pump is broken, it's not going to fix itself on its own. Someone will have to attend to it – either the pool owner, or a professional with a service company. It's just part of the deal that the pool – like the kids, the pets and the house – needs regular attention. If the daily schedule is getting too packed to fit in regular pool maintenance, consider hiring a pool service to handle some of the tasks. They can stop by on a regular basis and check pH levels, add pool chemicals, clean debris out of the pool pump. The expense will pay off – it will likely be less than the problems associated with ignoring a broken pool pump, or a clogged pool filter.
Spend some time on pool maintenance. Yes, you've scheduled in your pool maintenance. But have you scheduled enough time to really get the job done? It's best to check a pool's chemistry at least twice a week in the summer, and once a week over the winter. Make sure the pH level is checked often and stays at the proper level – around 7.5 is the proper level. Don't let it get above 8.0, or drop below 7.0. You can't just stick your hand in the water to make sure the pool is OK – the pool owner needs to spend that time to make sure the chemicals are in balance. If they're not, "I'll remember to add the chlorine tomorrow" is going to put the project on the back burner. After a while, the effects will build up and the pool will need a lot more work. Brushing the tiles and walls of the pool if they need it – if you allow algae to build up, or the pool tiles get calcified, it will require a specialist to clean them, leading to further expense.
Cleaning and maintaining the pool is not the glamorous part of owning a family swimming pool. But if handled the right way, it can be a minimal time expenditure, lowering expenses in the long run. It will bring about hours of pleasant pool time, having a dip while watching the kids play.
Maintaining the cleanliness of pools by the use of pool filters is the easiest way.
It is essential for your swimming pool to be crystal clear for you to be able to truly enjoy it and relax in it. I completely agree with your article: maintaining your pool isn't a glamorous job, but it's not that big a hassle if carried out regularly and assiduously.
Great blog! As a pool owner, pool maintenance is something we simply don't want to ignore because undoing the damage from negligence is much more time consuming and expensive than the little bit of time it takes to complete these tasks.
Thank you very much for these tips. Because of this I've decided to hire a chandler az pool service to help me with our Pool maintenance. We usually just clean the pool by ourselves, scrubbing tiles, removing leaves and basic stuff, but we've never really regard Pool Maintenance as important.
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Hiring a professional team of Arizona pool cleaning service has helped us a lot in keeping our property well maintained, but obviously we can't call them every year so we only have them for annual equipment check-ups or an occasional full-on cleaning, that's why I asked them to give me some tips to keep my pool clean without spending too much time on it. Probably my favorite pool cleaning task is scooping out leaves and insects that fall on the pool. What about you? What's your favorite?
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I thought I'd change things up with the photos so you don't have to see snow everyday. I took this photo awhile back in Washington DC. I was with some friends, giving them a tour since I've lived in this area for more than half my life, and of course it was raining. I always end up on tours when it rains.
This particular photo was taken at the Vietnam Memorial Wall where there are a total of 58,267 names of men and women who were killed or remain missing in action written on the gabbro walls. In case you don't know, gabbro refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained, intrusive mafic igneous rocks chemically equivalent to basal.
Well, the rain was coming down pretty hard and I was ready to leave when this child pulls away from his mother to check out the wall for himself. He carefully walked up to the wall and stared at it for a moment. The way he reflected on the wall was haunting. I was able to snap a quick shot before his mother called him back to the group. I remember hearing him ask his mother "Are they all dead?" The mother just nodded and they walked away.
This scene has always stuck with me because I am a military brat. Both my parents served in the Air Force and my grandfathers were also in the military and so forth. You could say that the military runs through my veins. People sometimes just go to this memorials to see what all the fuss is about but I wonder…how many people ask "Are they all dead?" War is a sad and necessary evil sometimes. Let's not forget that we are here today, living the lives we live, because men and women died for this freedom!
Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy!


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The commercial showroom in Gurgaon is the fourth of its kind to be set up in the country with a new corporate identity and it will showcase and retail the Super Carry LCV launched at the end of July this year. Mainstream auto manufacturers like Tata Motors and Mahindra have significant presence in the commercial vehicle segment for years now.
Maruti Suzuki's entry into the LCV space has started to heat up further as another brand commercial vehicle outlet will be opened shortly in Faridabad, Haryana. The Indo-Japanese brand's car division has two kinds of sales network. One for regular line of cars and the other is Nexa for premium branded vehicles.
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Maruti Suzuki has already become the only automaker to have established three different kinds of sales outlet, besides Truevalue, in the entire industry. The Super Carry has seen an investment of Rs. 300 crore in a hope that it will sweep sales volume.
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In the November 2021 election, Cleveland voters elected Justin Bibb to be the new mayor, with nearly 63 percent of the vote cast.
It made Bibb Cleveland's first new mayor in 16 years.
He instantly became a mayor who had a lot on his plate. Issues ranged from the city's continuing Consent Decree with the U.S. Justice Department, to population shifting, with a continuation of overall loss, but growth in the city's urban core.
Bibb also has to deal with a municipal school district seeking to improve performance among students; as well as snowstorms, jersey barriers in Public Square, and changes at the historic West Side Market.
For the majority of the "Sound of Ideas," we speak with Mayor Bibb about his first year in office and what work lies ahead for 2023 and beyond.
To close the program, we discuss sports safety in the aftermath of the collapse of Bills player Damar Hamlin last week.
Justin Bibb, Mayor, City of Cleveland
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Turkish support of coalition fighting Islamic State centers on border buffer zone
ISTANBUL — With the United States continuing to pressure Turkey to do more in the fight against the Islamic State, Turkey's position has hardened around an idea it has pushed for years as a strategy to confront the chaos of the Syrian civil war: a buffer zone along its frontier with Syria.The idea is emerging as a possible way to end the standoff between the United States and Turkey, and U.S. military planners are said to be looking at how to implement such a plan, which would require a no-fly zone and stepped up combat air patrols to take out Syrian air defense systems.
Yet the prospect of a buffer zone is proving deeply divisive in Washington, as it would go far beyond President Barack Obama's original mission of taking on the Islamic State and would lead to a direct confrontation with the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad. While Turkey has largely described the plan in humanitarian terms — to protect refugees and also Turkey's border — the argument made privately is that a buffer zone would quickly evolve into a place where moderate rebels would be trained to fight Assad's government; in other words, a fledgling rebel state.
"It would mainly be a place where an alternate government structure would take root and for the training of rebels," said Frederic C. Hof, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former U.S. envoy to the Syrian opposition.
Secretary of State John Kerry this week said the idea was "worth looking at very, very closely," and officials within the State Department have been pushing it. The Pentagon and the White House quickly disavowed it although they acknowledged having discussions about it.
Obama on Thursday dispatched the envoy coordinating the coalition against the Islamic State, retired Gen. John R. Allen, to Ankara, the capital, for two days of talks to nudge Turkey to play a greater role and go beyond what it is already doing — sharing intelligence and taking measures to control the flow of foreign jihadis traveling through Turkey.
—Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times
Schiller departs as Twitter's head of news
Vivian Schiller, a veteran news executive who joined Twitter less than a year ago to oversee its partnerships with news and journalism organizations, said Wednesday that she was leaving the social network.
Schiller announced her departure in a series of tweets, much as her former boss, Chloe Sladden, did when she quit Twitter in June. It was the latest in a number of executive departures at the social media company.
Schiller, a former head of NPR and previously a New York Times executive, had been recruited to Twitter from NBC News by Sladden and Ali Rowghani, who was Twitter's chief operating officer until he, too, left in June, following clashes with Twitter's chief executive, Dick Costolo. Her departure is the latest ripple from a series of executive changes made by Costolo. In her departure tweets, Schiller said she was stepping down so her new boss, Katie Jacobs Stanton, the head of global media at Twitter, could reorganize the operation as she saw fit.
Stanton has put Adam Sharp in charge of news and government partnerships, a role he had held until Schiller joined Twitter, a Twitter spokeswoman said. Sharp, a former C-SPAN executive and Senate aide, has helped legions of politicians figure out how to use Twitter more effectively, and now his job will be to help news organizations do the same. That puts him in an oddly conflicted position of advising government officials who are seeking to influence public opinion and journalists who are trying to get past that manipulation and explain what they see as the real story. Sharp will report to Kirstine Stewart, a former executive at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. who recently moved from Twitter Canada to take over Sladden's responsibilities.
—Vindu Goel, The New York Times
Ancient Indonesian find may rival oldest known cave art
A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that paintings of hands and animals in seven limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may be as old as the earliest European cave art. The oldest cave painting known until now is a 40,800-year-old red disk from El Castillo, in northern Spain. Other archaeologists of human origins said the new findings were spectacular and, in at least one sense, unexpected. Sulawesi's cave art, first described in the 1950s, had previously been dismissed as no more than 10,000 years old.
"Assuming that the dates are good," Dr. Nicholas Conard, an archaeologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, said in an email, "this is good news, and the only surprising thing is not that analogous finds would exist elsewhere, but rather that it has been so hard to find them" until now. Dr. Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College of the City University of New York, agreed that the discovery "certainly makes sense." Recent genetic findings, he said, "support an early deployment of modern humans eastward to Southeast Asia and Australasia, and so having art of a similar age is reasonable as well."
The authors of the new study, a team from Australia and Indonesia, used a uranium decay technique to date the substance that encrusts the wall paintings — a mineral called calcite, created by water flowing through the limestone in the cave. The art beneath is presumably somewhat older than the crust. Dr. Maxime Aubert and Dr. Adam Brumm, research fellows at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and the leaders of the study, examined 12 images of human hands and two figurative animal depictions at the cave sites. The researchers said the earliest images, with a minimum age of 39,900 years, are the oldest known stenciled outlines of human hands in the world.
—John Noble Wilford, The New York Times


BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. carmaker Tesla Inc has hiked prices on its Model X and S cars by about 20 percent in China, the first automaker to do so in the world's top automotive market in response to mounting trade tensions between the countries.
The move is the earliest indication of how much higher Chinese tariffs on certain U.S. imports will flow through to buyers, with other automakers likely to follow suit or shift a greater portion of production to China.
"It's only chapter one of this story," said James Chao, a Shanghai-based analyst at consultancy IHS Markit, who expects more companies worldwide to be hurt by the trade spat.
China slapped retaliatory tariffs of 25 percent on imports of several U.S. products, including cars, after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods.
China's tariffs are expected to hurt automakers, firms that make industrial components in the United States, and producers of soybean, whisky and other agricultural items.
For Tesla especially, rapidly burning cash and struggling to turn a profit, China is key. Sales in the country accounted for about 17 percent of its revenue last year.
In May, Tesla slashed up to $14,000 off its Model X in China after Beijing said it would cut import tariffs to 15 percent from 25 percent for most vehicles from July 1.
But the latest retaliatory tariffs mean importers will have to fork out a total 40 percent duty on all U.S.-made cars they sell in China.
Tesla's price hikes kicked in over the weekend.
Tesla's price increases come as it plans to build a factory in Shanghai to serve the Chinese market. The company ships more than 15,000 cars a year to China.
CEO Elon Musk is expected to visit Shanghai on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the plans. Musk will also visit Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday, Bloomberg added, quoting one of the sources.
Tesla did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Analysts were divided on whether the price hikes will bother affluent buyers in China where, in big cities like Shanghai and Shenze, it is considered a status symbol to own a Tesla.
"Tesla consumers are a unique group of rich people. They want more of a brand image and product experience, price is less of a concern," said Yale Zhang, head of Automotive Foresight.
IHS Markit's Chao, however, said many wealthy Chinese buyers were becoming more price conscious.
Other foreign automakers that could announce price increases in China include German automakers BMW and Daimler AG.
BMW recently said it was unable to "completely absorb" the new tariffs, while Daimler has flagged that it "aims to maintain a competitive position" in China. Both firms import U.S.-produced cars into the Asian nation.
Ford Motor Co has, however, said it would not hike prices on its imported cars for now, crimping its profit margins.