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ABC Orders Ricky Gervais Game Show With Kids 'Five To Survive' From Banijay
ABC has given a series order to Five to Survive, an hourlong game show from The Office's Ricky Gervais and Banijay Studios North America.
Five to Survive is an original studio-based game show that features one adult contestant who must answer 10 questions correctly to earn the top prize. If they answer incorrectly, the contestant has a chance to be saved by a group of five kids who have been asked the same question. Asking the questions is none other than Gervais who interacts with the kids as they assist the grown-up contestants with their answers for a chance to win the large cash prize. The adult contestant will be joined in the studio by a host whose search is underway.
"I've never understood the saying 'never work with animals or children.' said Gervais. "As a producer and director, I prefer either to Hollywood actors. They're cheaper, they do as they're told, and the filming hours are better."
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Reality shows featuring kids have been very popular, from Fox's MasterChef Jr. and So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation to NBC's Little Big Shots.
"When Ricky presented his idea for Five to Survive, we immediately knew this was a project that needed to land here at ABC," said Robert Mills, SVP, Alternative Series, Specials, & Late Night Programming, ABC Entertainment. "It has spirit, it's fun and it will have the unforgettable comedic moniker that is Ricky Gervais."
The show likely will feature a PG version of Gervais, known for his racy jokes as showcased in his hosting stints at the Golden Globes. Gervais executive produces Five to Survive with David Goldberg and Caroline Baumgard, chief creative officer, Banijay Studios North America.
"At its core, Five to Survive is a high stakes Q&A game show with the unpredictable twist of contestants putting their earning potential in the hands of children. said Goldberg, Banijay Group President and CEO, Banijay Studios North America.
Banijay Studios North America also is producing Jimmy Kimmel's upcoming primetime game show Big Fan and What Happens at the Abbey.


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Description Two men in suits stand on either side of a large jukebox inside the Old Kentucky Tavern. Address: 2352 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky.
Source 8 x 10 in. b&w film negative. Item no. ULPA R_05154_n in the Royal Photo Company Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
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Factors influencing utilization of paediatric HIV care and treatment services in Njombe Region, Tanzania
Masters Thesis (1.343Mb)
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Ulimboka, Stephen
Introduction and Background: HIV/AIDS is one of the major cause of child death in Tanzania (UNICEF, 2012). However, utilization of HIV care and treatment services is very low in this setting (NACP, 2013). This study therefore set out to establish the level (measured as a proportion of children using at least 50% of the defined services) and factors associated with children"s (0-14 years) low utilization of care and treatment services in Njombe region, a setting most affected by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. Methods: A community survey was conducted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Quantitave tools were administered to 417 caretakers, resident in 57 wards. The caretakers were obtained through multistage sampling with wards as clusters and the initial respondent in each ward being randomly selected. The main outcome was utilization of care and treatment services measured as a binary variable. Exploratory, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted. The measure of association was prevalence rate ratio-PRR (obtained via a "modified" Poisson regression model), because the outcome was higher than 10%. All the quantitative data were analyzed using STATA version 12. Qualitative data were analyzed manually and involved development of descriptive codes, organizing concepts and identification of themes. Results: The mean (SD) age of children was 9.4 (3.2) years and 51.6% (215/417) were female. Caretaker"s characteristics were; 78.4% (327/417) females, 53.0% (221/417) married and 47.6% (179/416) aged 18-39 years. Only 35.7% of the children had utilized the services. Factors significantly associated with increased use were preschoolers aged 4-5 years compared to toddlers 1-3 years, (adj.PRR: 3.95: 95% CI: 1.09-14.25); female children compared to their male counterparts (adj.PRR: 1.52, 95% CI: 1.16-2.01); those who perceived waiting time as fair compared to those who perceived it as very long (adj. PRR:1.70, 95% CI: 1.22-2.35) and those who did not pay for the services compared to those who paid (adj. PRR: xiv 3.48, 95% CI: 1.55-10.55). Lack of commitment, poverty, stigma, HIV disclosure, discrimination and witchcraft beliefs, shortage of staffs and drugs (ARVs and cotrimoxazole), shortage of trained staffs and distance to the health facilities influenced utilization. Conclusion and recommendation: Utilization of HIV care and treatment services in Njombe region is still very low (35.7%). Factors associated with utilization were child"s age and sex, caretaker"s age and lack of commitment. Other barriers were socio-cultural challenges especially stigma, discrimination and witchcraft beliefs and facility factors including shortages of drugs and trained staffs. Efforts directed towards these could be important interventions to address the poor uptake. Offering caretakers with HIV infected children opportunities to meet, support, and encourage one another at the household, village and ward level will restore their commitment and lessen the problems of stigma and discrimination. Developing policies that will comprehensively address utilization of paediatric care remains a crucial strategy.

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Q: List view with buttons at the bottom of dialog theme activity keep overlapping I am working on android project where I have an activity which is using the theme holo dialog.
Within the dialog I have a list view and what I want to have is at the bottom always on show a linear layout which contains two buttons next to each other. The list view is populated by retrieving data from the call log and populating the adapter of the list.
The problem I am having is the list view always shows on top taking up the whole dialogue with the buttons at the bottom, with the content of the list overlapping the buttons. I want the list to be within the space of the top of the dialogue to the top of the linear layout button group. Below is the code for the main content view. This layout is set using the setContentView in the onCreate method
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    </ListView>
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/call_log_select_host_button_group"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
        <Button android:id="@+id/call_log_select_btnCancel"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Block"/>
        <Button android:id="@+id/call_log_select_btnBlock"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Cancel" />
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

I'm not sure if it makes any difference but just in case the below is how I am populating the list and setting the view.
@Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {
            CallInformation callInformation = (CallInformation)arrayList.get(position);
            LayoutInflater inflator = (LayoutInflater)context
                    .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

            View rowView = inflator.inflate(R.layout.call_log_selection, parent, false);

            ImageView imageView = (ImageView)rowView.findViewById(R.id.call_log_selector_image);

            if (callInformation.type == android.provider.CallLog.Calls.INCOMING_TYPE)
            {
                imageView.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.sym_call_incoming);
            }
            else if (callInformation.type == android.provider.CallLog.Calls.OUTGOING_TYPE)
            {
                imageView.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.sym_call_outgoing);
            }
            else if (callInformation.type == android.provider.CallLog.Calls.MISSED_TYPE)
            {
                imageView.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.sym_call_missed);
            }

            CheckBox checkbox = (CheckBox)rowView.findViewById(R.id.call_log_selector_checkbox);
            checkbox.setText(callInformation.content);
            checkbox.setTag(callInformation.telephone);
            return rowView;
        }
    }

The below code is the XML layout that is inflated by the adapter get view function
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal">
        <ImageView android:id="@+id/call_log_selector_image"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:src="@android:drawable/stat_sys_phone_call"/>
        <CheckBox android:id="@+id/call_log_selector_checkbox"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Thanks for any help you can provide.

A: Try telling your ListView to stay above your LinearLayout
 <ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_above="@+id/call_log_select_host_button_group>  // Add this line here
</ListView>

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Alao ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Ibiyinka Alao (* 1975), nigerianischer Künstler
 Sadikou Ayo Alao (* 1943), beninischer Anwalt

Alao bezeichnet außerdem:

 Alao (Insel), Insel im Chiloé-Archipel in Chile
 Gebiet in der Provinz Chimborazo in Ecuador mit den Siedlungen Alao Llactapamba und San Antonio de Alao

Siehe auch:
 Río Alao, Name zweier Flüsse in Südamerika

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How the U.S. Is Shifting Its Approach on Russia's War in Ukraine – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared Monday at the end of a stealth visit to Ukraine that America's goal is to see Russia so "weakened" that it would no longer have the power to invade a neighboring state, he was acknowledging a transformation of the conflict, from a battle over control of Ukraine to one that pits Washington more directly against Moscow.
President Biden entered the war insistent that he did not want to make this a contest between the United States and Russia. Rather, he was simply helping a small, struggling democracy defend itself against takeover by a far more powerful neighbor. "Direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War III, something we must strive to prevent," he said in early March, just two weeks into the war.
He has committed to keeping American troops out of the fight, and has resisted imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine that would risk putting American and Russian forces into direct combat. Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine's need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper. At the same time, in word and deed, the United States has been gradually pushing in the direction of undercutting the Russian military.
It has imposed sanctions that were explicitly designed to stop Russia's military from developing and manufacturing new weapons. It has worked — with mixed success — to cut off the oil and gas revenues that drive its war machine.
The immediate impetus for Mr. Austin's carefully orchestrated declaration that the United States wants "Russia weakened to the point where it can't do things like invade Ukraine," several administration officials said, was to set up President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with what one senior State Department official called "the strongest possible hand" for what they expect will be some kind of cease-fire negotiations in coming months.
But over the longer term, Mr. Austin's description of America's strategic goal is bound to reinforce President Vladimir V. Putin's oft-stated belief that the war is really about the West's desire to choke off Russian power and destabilize his government. And by casting the American goal as a weakened Russian military, Mr. Austin and others in the Biden administration are becoming more explicit about the future they see: years of continuous contest for power and influence with Moscow that in some ways resembles what President John F. Kennedy termed the "long twilight struggle" of the Cold War.Mr. Austin's comments, bolstered by statements by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the various ways in which Mr. Putin has "already lost" in the struggle over Ukraine, reflect a decision made by the Biden administration and its closest allies, several officials said on Monday, to talk more openly and optimistically about the possibility of Ukrainian victory in the next few months as the battle moves to the Russian-speaking south and east, where Mr. Putin's military should, in theory, have an advantage.
At a moment when American intelligence officials are reporting that Mr. Putin thinks he is winning the war, the strategy is to drive home the narrative that Russia's military adventure will be ruinous, and that it is a conflict Mr. Putin cannot afford to sustain.
But it is a strategy that carries some risks.
"There is a very narrow line to tread here," James Arroyo, a former senior British national security official who now serves as director of the Ditchley Foundation, a think tank that focuses on promoting democracy. "The risk is that 'degrade Russian military power' could easily shift into a degradation of Russia as a power generally — and that Putin will use that to stoke nationalism."
There is a second risk: that if Mr. Putin believes that his conventional military forces are being strangled, he will turn to stepped-up cyberattacks on Western infrastructure, chemical weapons or his arsenal of tactical, "battlefield" nuclear weapons. It is a possibility that was barely conceivable eight weeks ago, but is regularly discussed today.
"Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setback they've faced so far militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons," William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, warned earlier this month.
He said the chances were low. But among the possible scenarios that American officials are examining is one in which Mr. Putin, frustrated by a lack of progress on the ground, detonates a "demonstration" blast over the Black Sea or in an unpopulated area as a warning shot for the West to back off.
But for all its public warnings — designed to defuse Mr. Putin's episodic nuclear threats — the White House is working to demonstrate publicly that Russia is emerging from the war in a far weaker position, militarily and economically, than it was on Feb. 24. That is the date when Mr. Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine from half a dozen directions in what he hoped would be a blitzkrieg move to decapitate the government. Instead, he was forced into a humiliating retreat, and is refocusing on the country's south and east, the Russian-speaking territory closest to its own borders.
The new focus should, in theory, favor the Russians. Their supply lines back to Russian territory are far shorter than they were when they sought to take Kyiv, where their tanks and armored personnel carriers, plodding down existing highways, became easy targets. The contested territory in Ukraine's south and east includes wide-open areas, more suited to Russian-style artillery barrages.
The trip by Mr. Austin and Mr. Blinken was scripted to make the case that while on paper the Russians have the advantage, the odds actually favor the Ukrainians, largely because they have the motivation to preserve their homeland.
"The first step in winning is believing you can win," said Philip M. Breedlove, who served as the supreme allied commander Europe, the top NATO military officer, until 2016. He added that he was glad of Mr. Austin's language, even if it risked provoking Russia, because "the Ukrainians have to believe that we intend to give them what they need, because that is what will be required for them to win."
What they needed was heavy artillery, and as the Biden administration and other NATO nations have rushed to get that weaponry into Ukrainian hands, the Russians have become increasingly vocal in their warnings that the shipments themselves are an act of aggression — and could be targeted.
Mariupol steel plant. The battle to hold off Russian forces at the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol ended, as Ukraine's military declared the "combat mission" there over. Ukrainian officials reported that fighters were being evacuated.
Russian setbacks. President Vladimir V. Putin is facing a series of setbacks over the invasion, as his faltering military appeared forced to further shrink its goals in eastern Ukraine. Analysts say Moscow is now focused on securing a smaller portion of the Donbas region on its border.
NATO's show of strength Although planned before the invasion of Ukraine, NATO held a large military exercise on Russia's doorstep in Estonia. The drills come as Finland and Sweden confirmed that they would cast aside decades of strategic neutrality and apply for membership in the alliance.
McDonald's plans to leave Russia. After 32 years in Russia, McDonald's has put its Russia business up for sale as it works to leave the country completely. The move makes McDonald's the latest of many Western companies to unwind their investments, close stores and pause sales in Russia.
The artillery, however, can be justified as largely defense weaponry — they cannot strike far into Russia itself. But Mr. Austin's statement about keeping Russia from being able to invade anew, in Ukraine or elsewhere, articulated a strategy that has been hinted at, both in public statements and in the type of sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia in the past eight weeks.
The most damaging of those sanctions may be the export controls on high-tech components that the Russian defense industry needs to produce new weapons. Unlike China, America's other major adversary, Russia has limited capability to manufacture its own chips, and almost no prospect of developing that capability without Western technology.
Announcing some of those export controls in early March, Mr. Biden said his goal with Russia was to "sap its economic strength and weaken its military for years to come." Now there are anecdotal reports — eagerly amplified by the White House — of the Russian military-industrial complex running short of parts.
"The Russian high-tech and defense sectors are being choked off from key inputs," Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, told reporters as Mr. Biden headed to a meeting with NATO leaders a month ago. So far it is hard to measure the effects on actual weapons production, and it is unclear if the Russians will succeed in finding alternate sources of supply.
Administration officials deeply involved in the sanctions strategy say it was designed to get worse over time. As capital dries up for investment in new capability, as chip supplies dwindle and energy revenues decline, the squeeze will become more apparent. In time, it will bleed into consumer goods, making it harder for ordinary Russians to buy the iPhones and Androids that seem nearly as ubiquitous on the streets of Moscow as they are in New York.
Still, the question overhanging the strategy described by Mr. Austin is whether it can work. Every American president since Harry Truman has tried to squeeze the North Koreans with crushing sanctions; today, their nuclear arsenal is bigger than ever. Donald Trump often said that the 1,500 sanctions he placed on Iran would bring the country to the bargaining table, begging for a deal. They did not.
Mr. Biden's aides say they understand that sanctions alone cannot do the trick — what is needed is a highly coordinated mix of sanctions, military pressure and diplomacy. That is a difficult task with smaller states. With a country the size of Russia, armed with nuclear weapons, it becomes a far riskier proposition.


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Jeb Bush: Allow guns in military recruiting offices
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Friday that a ban on carrying guns in military recruiting offices should be lifted.
He made the comments Friday during a town hall-style event in Carson City, Nevada, a day after a gunman killed four Marines and wounded a sailor and another Marine at a pair of military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn. His statement drew enthusiastic applause from the crowd.
"It seems to me that if you have military bases or recruiting offices, these are symbols of American might, they're targets," Bush told reporters after the event. "This is how you garner attention. You go to places where there's vulnerability, and it's a very powerful symbolic attack on our country."
Bush, who called for a moment of silence for the victims at the beginning of the event, said the attacks should also prompt the U.S. to heighten national security and "deal with the rest of the world in a more aggressive way."
He noted that Congress would need to act for the gun ban at recruitment centers to be repealed.
"If the Marines were armed, I think people would've known that, and if they had known it, maybe they wouldn't have come in," he said. "Who knows. I just think it ought to be reviewed for sure."
On Friday, the Army's top officer said that security at military recruiting and reserve centers would be reviewed, but it's too early to say whether the facilities should have security guards or other increased protection.
Gen. Ray Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, told reporters that arming troops in those offices could cause more problems than it might solve.
The former Florida governor pointed to his high ratings from the National Rifle Association as he appeared in largely conservative northern Nevada and said law-abiding citizens who have the right to self-defense make the world safer. He noted that Florida has both a high rate of concealed carry weapon permits and falling crime rates.
Bush's visit to Nevada included the town hall in Carson City and a planned speech in Las Vegas on Friday night.
Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
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First Impressions and Unfiltered Thoughts: Police University
August 12, 2021 August 12, 2021 / Karie the Maknae
Due to the current trend in pre-show advertising, I'm going to have to reserve judgement on ANYTHING until I've watched at least the first two episodes. Come see why I changed my mind about Police University after two episodes and see if it's the right drama for you, too.
Where It Started
Here's one of the trailers I saw first:
Can you see where I thought this might be a comedy?? And the original plot description went something like this: "Cha Tae Hyun (Team Bulldog), Jung Jin Young (My First First Love), and Krystal (Prison Playbook) star in a drama about a detective and a hacker and an upright first-year student who meet at the police university and work together to investigate a case."
Pretty basic, right? Mentor and mentee and the teacher's pet work together to solve some sort of a case, shenanigans and a romance ensue. I thought it would be easy enough to watch for a couple of episodes, since it sounds straightforward and somewhat fluffy.
How It's Going
Y'all, Jun Jinyoung's character has NOTHING fluffy going on. Kang Sun Ho is a genius-level hacker who lives with his adoptive family after his father's death. He's constantly trying to make up for imposing on them by learning how to repair computers, both the hardware and the software. He doesn't have any goals in life except to make life better for his dad, whom he struggles to call "Dad," and his best friend/brother.
At his brother's judo competition, Kang Sun Ho spots Krystal's character, Oh Kang Hee, after overhearing an argument with her coach about competing even though she's injured. Kang Hee's passion for achievement snags his attention, and he's immediately smitten. After Sun Ho does a little low-level social media snooping, he manages to run into Kang Hee outside of her study prep class for the police academy. Suddenly, Sun Ho might have a dream for himself after all.
On the other side of the coin, we have Cha Tae Hyun's Detective Yoo Dong Man. He throws every resource he has into taking down crime rings, and currently he's trying to take out a casino that deals in cryptocurrency. One night, he and his partner accidentally crash into Sun Ho's family van in pursuit of the criminals and they all end up in the hospital together.
Through a series of unfortunate choices, Detective Yoo comes to severely dislike Sun Ho. When they end up at the academy together as professor and student, Detective Yoo decides to do his best to tank Sun Ho's probationary period and get him kicked out of the academy. Kang Hee can see something is going on, and supports Sun Ho in small, kind ways.
Will I Keep Watching?
I hadn't planned on it, but yes I will! There's FAR more to the plot than I've covered already, including Sun Ho's dad doing little suspicious things, Detective Yoo's secret online hacker buddy, and someone from the gambling ring being AT THE ACTUAL ACADEMY. Krystal isn't being particularly wooden, and the friendship dynamics between Sun Ho and his best friend/brother are shaping up to be the best kind of bromance. I'm in it just to see where this mystery will go.
Until the next roll call, I remain —
1st Impressions, Drama Reviews, Kdrama
Cha Tae Hyun, First Impressions, Jun Jinyoung, Kdrama, Krystal, Police University
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Health warning lifted at Christchurch beaches but estuary remains off limits
Thursday September 8, 2011
The Community and Public Health division of Canterbury District Health Board has lifted the health warning at Christchurch beaches but warnings for the Estuary/Ihutai and the Avon/Otakaro and Heathcote/Opawaho rivers remain in place.
Bacterial monitoring from Environment Canterbury and the Christchurch City Council now show that Christchurch beach water has very low levels of bacteria.
Canterbury Medical Officer of Health Dr Alistair Humphrey says Christchurch beaches are now suitable for recreational water use.
"This is great news for those of us who have been avoiding the water following the high levels of contamination," Dr Humphrey says.
"With summer approaching, those who want to can now get back on or in the water at these locations without the risk of gastro illness."
Water testing results show faecal bacteria levels at Waimairi Beach, North Beach, New Brighton Beach, South Brighton Beach, Sumner Beach and Scarborough Beach are low and the water is therefore safe to enter, Dr Humphrey says.
It is also important to remember heavy rain washes faecal matter into the sea, so people should avoid the beaches for two days after heavy rainfall, particularly at Scarborough beach, which has a storm water drain at its eastern end.
Unfortunately, there is also sewage still being discharged into rivers running into the estuary and these rivers have been demonstrated by scientists at Environmental Science and Research (ESR) to contain high levels of human pathogens, such as giardia, cryptosporidium, clostridium, campylobacter, E.coli and viruses. This means people should continue to avoid the Estuary/Ihutai and the Avon/Otakaro and Heathcote/Opawaho rivers.
"Even after the sewage discharges cease, as more people return to Christchurch or start to reuse their normal household toilet after using a chemical toilet or port-a-loo for many months, new breaks in the sewerage system may appear as a result of increased waste-water flow on the system. Monitoring of the Avon, Heathcote and the Estuary is unlikely to demonstrate a return to pre-earthquake levels for many months," Dr Humphrey says.
It is still important not to collect shellfish from anywhere in the area, as sewage borne viruses can live in shellfish for many months.
For more information about recreational water quality visit the Environment Canterbury website: http://ecan.govt.nz/services/online-services/monitoring/Pages/water-contamination-ch.
Page last reviewed: 13 February 2014
© Copyright Canterbury District Health Board. Published: Feb 2014 | Last Updates: Feb 2014


Consumers are reacting to meat health and safety concerns by broadening their range of choices.
The low-carb craze spurred consumers to look favorably at meats of all kinds. Add concerns about bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE or mad cow disease), especially after a case was found in the U.S., and it's no surprise the market for natural and organic meats is growing at a compound annual growth rate above 40 percent annually, according to the Nutrition Business Journal.
To make sense of the current meat industry, it is helpful to look at the main market segments.
USDA — All meat sold in the U.S. must follow U.S. Dept. of Agriculture regulations. All the beef on the market, from the cheapest to the most expensive, theoretically meets these requirements.
Beef Mark of Quality — This is the beef industry's "premiumization" program of branded beef products. The Cattlemen's Beef Board funded the "Mark of Quality Commission" to create and administer this program. The criteria are that the product must be branded and must provide significant proof of strongly positive consumer sensory results. The meat portion must be 100 percent beef from a central USDA-inspected processing facility with a HACCP program, and be backed by a minimum $5 million product liability insurance. Packaging must include safe handling/cooking instructions, clear manufacturer contact information and nutrition labeling.
Natural — This category is interesting from a marketing perspective due to its explosive growth and the parallel evolution of standards. But caveat emptor: The only restrictions the USDA imposes on use of the word natural is that it be "minimally processed," with no artificial ingredients or preservatives. Although this leaves a lot open, a de facto definition evolved in which most products with this label are usually from cattle raised without added hormones or antibiotics and not fed animal by-products.
Pasture/Grass Fed Meats — These are prized as being more flavorful, more nutritional and of higher food safety quality. According to Eatwild.com, a self-proclaimed clearinghouse for information about pasture-based farming, "Switching ruminants from their natural diet of grasses to grains also lowers the nutritional value of their meat and dairy products." Compared with grass-fed meat, grain-fed meat contains more total fat, saturated fat and calories. It also has less vitamin E, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid. There are scientific data to back up these claims, although there is much disagreement about some of the research as well as the nutritional relevance of these differences.
Organic Beef — Organic beef sales are growing by double digits — twice as fast as the rest of the organic industry. Projected compound annual growth rates for the next five years are in excess of 40 percent. Whereas the requirements for "natural" meats are not subject to federal government oversight, organic products are audited by federal government authorized certifiers to assure compliance with the National Organic Program rules. The rules are similar to those for the natural meats, with the addition of the strict audit requirement mentioned above and the requirement that organic animals be fed organic feed.
Niman Ranch, founded by Bill Niman and Orville Schell in the early 1970s, is one of the most prominent companies in the "natural" category. Starting from livestock raised exclusively on their original Bolinas ranch in Marin County, Calif., Niman Ranch now sources its livestock from many ranches raising livestock under contract according to their requirements.
Niman products are available in hundreds of restaurants and stores across the country. Most importantly, the company recently moved into the fast food arena as the provider of pork to the Chipotle Grill chain — partly owned by McDonalds Corp.
Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas, was a major pioneer of promoting and purveying boutique meats to a large consumer base. The issue got a big boost with the onset of the BSE scare when the high-end, health-oriented supermarket chain widely publicized their requirements for all their meat suppliers, and informed customers how these requirements affected BSE infection probabilities. Many producers credit Whole Foods' policies with the significant business increase following the BSE issue hitting the front pages.
Now that meats are on the table again, the diversity of product coming into the market is significant. And not all of these boutique products come from the same mind-set.
One example is Piedmontese "double-muscled" beef. Years ago, a cow in Piedmont, Italy, apparently incurred a mutation that reduced the effectiveness of a gene that slows muscle growth. After cross-breeding to enhance the mutation, the result was a subspecies of cow that grows very lean, very large and very fast. These animals are currently being raised in the U.S. to crossbreed with other cattle to create a faster growing cow. But if you're worried that this is some sort of "Frankenmeat," Blackwing Meats Inc., Antioch, Ill., is preparing to launch a line of Piedmontese meat that meets the strict standards necessary to be labeled organic.
Organically raised bison, after a few false starts in the 1980s, is now available through many vendors. It's common enough to be available in most supermarkets and has even made its way into a few smaller lines of processed meals.
Two other alternative meats graduating from farm and field to the mainstream are venison and ostrich. Venison is available farm raised from several suppliers and is even "wild harvested" from the Broken Arrow Ranch in Texas. (Broken Arrow Ranch has been a supplier to restaurant outlets for decades.) Like bison, ostrich is another low-fat meat that failed to fly 20 years ago but is now experiencing a comeback.
All this variety is more evident now that the market for meats is in a very exciting growth and development phase.
John Ashby is General Manager - Ingredients, for California Natural Products, a pioneering manufacturer of rice ingredients for the food industry and focuses on the Nutritional, Nutraceutical, Functional and the Organic Foods industries.


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Financial Accounting & Bookkeeping
An Explanation of Cost Accounting
Please address the following question: Explain the characteristics and purposes of cost accounting?
Cost Accounting: Battle Company, Han Furniture
Please see attached file: PROBLEM 1 Analyze job cost sheet and prepare entry for completed job. A job cost sheet of Battle Company is given below. a. Answer the following questions. 1.	What are the source documents for direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead costs assigned to this job? 2. What is
Cost Accounting for Stellar Stairs and Mendocino Corporation
Stellar Stairs Co. of Poway designs and builds factory-made premium wooden stairs for homes. The manufactured stair components (spindles, risers, hangers, hand rails) permit installation of stairs of varying lengths and widths. All are of white oak wood. Its budgeted manufacturing overhead costs for the year 2006 are as follows.
The Differences in Financial and Managerial Accounting
What are the differences between financial and managerial accounting? Who are the primary users? What is the difference in purpose and content of the reports?
The Effects of Fixed Costs on Operating Leverage
What impact does fixed costs have on a company's operating leverage? What is the danger of being a highly levered company? (400+words)
Proposal for a Cost Accounting system for a new online business unit
Your team has been asked to present a proposal to management for developing a cost accounting system for the new online business unit of a merchandising company. Your final system must contain features designed to support the ability of both the new online business unit and the parent unit to measure the performance of the new b
Cost accounting differ from financial accounting
How does cost accounting differ from financial accounting? Provide examples to support your assertions.
Cost accounting for Highland Music Records
Lerner, Inc. , is accumulating data to prepare its annual profit plan for the coming year. The behavior pattern of the maintenance costs must be determined. The accounting staff has suggesed using regression to derive an equation in the form of y = a + bx for maintenance costs. Monthly data regarding maintenane hours and cost
Contrast financial accounting (GAAP) to managerial accounting
Why does financial accounting have to comply with GAAP but managerial doesn't? What types of decisions can be made using financial accounting information? What types of decisions can be made using managerial accounting?
COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS
1.	At January 1, 2008, Smithfield, Inc. has beginning inventory of 3,000 surfboards. Jake estimates it will sell 14,000 units during the first quarter of 2006 with a 10% increase in sales each quarter. Smithfield's policy is to maintain an ending inventory equal to 20% of the next quarter's sales. Each surfboard costs $140 and i
Please see the questions attached. An accountant has debited an asset account for $1,000 and credited a liability account for $500. What can be done to complete the recording of the transaction? a. Nothing further must be done. b. Debit a stockholders' equity account for $500. c. Debit another asset account
Integrated Decisions Corp: cost accounting calculations
See attached file: Integrated Decisions Corp applies overhead to jobs at a rate of 120 percent of direct labor cost. On December 31, 2006, a flood destroyed many of the firm's cost records leaving only the following information: Direct Material Inventory Work in Process Inventory
Reisen Travel offers helicopter service from suburban towns to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Each of its 10 helicopters makes between 1,000 and 2,000 round-trips per year. The records indicate that a helicopter that has made 1,000 round-trips in the year incurs an average operating cost of $300 per roun
What is the difference between a direct cost and an indirect cost? Give an example of each in the context of teaching an accounting class at your school.
Differences between cost, equity, and consolidated methods
What are the differences among the cost, equity, and consolidated methods of accounting?
Cost accounting manufacturing
Please see the attached files for complete questions. Materials cost $1 per flange, and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of $20 per hour. A glass blower blows 10 flanges per hour. Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are $20,000 per period. Period (non-manufacturing) costs associated with flanges are $10,000 per perio
The cost basis recorded in the buyers accounting records
The buildings appraisal value is $127,000 is made available at an offer price of $157,000. Purchaser aquires the property for $30,000 in cash, a 90-day not payable for $30,000, and a mortgage amounting to $50,000. The cost basis recorded in the buyers accounting records to recognize this purchase is?
I'm having a problem solving this question. I would like to see the steps involved to solving it correctly. 4-17 Actual costing, normal costing, accounting for manufacturing overhead. Destin Products uses a job-costing system with two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct manufacturing labor) and one manufactu
Cost allocation bases used to distribute various costs among the hospital's divisions.
Please see the attached file. The following table shows the cost allocation bases used to distribute various costs among the hospital's divisions. Cost Pool	Cost Allocation	Annual Cost Facilities: Building depreciation	Square feet of space	$190,000 Equipment depreciation Insurance Utilities: Electricity	C
Cost Accounting Analysis - Wal-Mart
Cost Accounting Analysis Resource: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=104169 You are the managerial accountant for Wal-Mart. Your primary responsibility is to make sure the operations of the company run smoothly and each department is meeting its goals. Your 2,100- to 2,800-word paper should
Financial Accounting Standard Board Website
From the Financial Accounting Standard Board Website could you tell what... (1)The points pertaining to the influence of economic consequences on the shaping of the accounting standards (2)The objectives of the FASB initiatives (3)The sources that the FASB project addresses (4)The decisions reached at the board meeti
Cost Accounting Journal - Wal-Mart
Based on publicly available information for Wal-Mart, can you discern what the cost drivers are for Wal-Mart? If you can, what are they? If not, what cost drivers do you believe are relevant for Wal-Mart? Why do you consider them cost drivers? Based on Wal-Mart's publicly available financial information and other
BA II Financial Calculator - A corporation recently purchased some preferred stock that has a before-tax yield of 7 percent.
Please show me how to solve each problem - Step by Step using a BA II Financial Calculator - The problems and answers are supplied. Need explanation with the BA II calculator Please see 5 problems below 19. After-tax returns	.	A corporation recently purchased some preferred stock that has a before-tax yield of 7 percent
Concepts of Underlying Accounting and Financial Reporting
You have several new hires beginning work on Monday at Auditing Accountants of Alabama. Not everyone will have an accounting background; therefore, you have been asked to prepare a presentation to provide an overview of the concepts underlying accounting and financial reporting along with the four basic assumptions and four basi
Cost Accounting in a Mine
Please see the attached cost accounting program about mining.
Accounting method: equity or the cost for investments
C2-1 Choice of Accounting Method Understanding Slanted Building Supplies purchased 32 percent of the voting shares of Flat Flooring Company in March 20X3. On December 31, 20X3, the officers of Slanted Building Supplies indicated they needed advice on whether to use the equity method or cost method in reporting their owners
In the calculation of manufacturing cycle efficiency, which of the following activities results in value-added time?
1. In the calculation of manufacturing cycle efficiency, which of the following activities results in value-added time? A. Moving. B. Processing. C. Inspection. D. Waiting. E. All of the above. 2. The difference between budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead and the fixed overhe
Opportunity Cost - Gail is contemplating a job offer with an advertising agency where she will make $50,000 in her first year of employment.
Gail is contemplating a job offer with an advertising agency where she will make $50,000 in her first year of employment. Alternatively, Gail can begin to work in her father's business where she will earn an annual salary of $40,000. If Gail decides to work with her father, the opportunity cost would be: A. $0 B. $40,000
What are the economic functions financial intermediaries perform?
1.	What are the economic functions financial intermediaries perform? 2.	What is the role of broker in the financial market? 3.	How has that role changed since the inception of on-line investing?
Pattern of Cost Behavior
Rental cost at Tootsie Roll, which includes a flat rate per month plus 2% of gross sales, would be considered which pattern of cost behavior? a. Variable cost b. Step Cost c. Mixed cost d. Fixed cost.
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Arnau Tordera i Prat (Tona, Osona, 1986), també conegut amb el nom artístic d'Arnau Tordera I, és un compositor, guitarrista, cantant i actor català. És conegut per ser el guitarrista, vocalista i líder del grup Obeses.

Biografia
Llicenciat en filosofia per la UAB, s'ha format musicalment estudiant composició a l'ESMUC, música moderna al Taller de Músics de Barcelona i guitarra clàssica al Conservatori de Vic.

El 2002 va fundar el grup de metal Segle XIII, que es va fer un lloc en l'escena musical del metal progressiu català. Amb Obeses ha publicat els discs Obesisme Il·lustrat (2011), Zel (2013), Monstres i Princeses (2015) Verdaguer, ombres i maduixes (2017) i Fills de les estrelles (2018). El seu treball de final de carrera de l'ESMUC va consistir en la realització de l'espectacle Obeses 3D, que va significar la presentació del disc Monstres i Princeses, conjuntament amb la Banda Municipal de Barcelona. En la composició de les seves peces musicals pretén donar tanta importància al contingut significatiu com al contingut estètic de la cançó. Per això, les peces tenen una gran diversitat estilística amb elaboracions refinades, contraposicions i un constant antagonisme que mostra una manera diferent de concebre la música.

Com a compositor, ha realitzat arranjaments per a diferents obres teatrals i cinematogràfiques. Des de l'any 2011, és col·laborador de la secció d'opinió d'Osona.com on exposa la seva visió crítica del panorama musical i artístic nacional. L'any 2014 va actuar a l'acte inaugural del Tricentenari de 1714 interpretant una versió de la cançó El cant dels ocells. Del 16 d'abril al 17 de maig del 2015 va formar part, com a músic i actor, en el paper del cambrer Guillaume, de la companyia que interpretava l'obra de Dürrenmatt Frank V al Teatre Lliure, dirigida per Josep Maria Mestres. El 10 de setembre de 2016 va actuar a l'acte institucional de la Diada de Catalunya amb la cançó Venim del nord, venim del sud de Lluís Llach.

És el conductor de la secció radiofònica El Secret de l'èxit a El món a Rac1 i presentador del programa El bolo de TV3.

Va posar música a l'òpera La gata perduda amb llibret de Victoria Szpunberg sobre el barri d'El Raval de Barcelona i amb 400 persones del mateix barri, que es va estrenar el 2022 al Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Premis i reconeixements
 3r Premi Teresa Rebull (2018): Al millor projecte de producció musical en cultura popular i tradicional per Les cançons seran sempre nostres, el duet creat amb Magí Canyelles.
 Premi Rotllana (2019): Guanyador del Premi Rotllana 2019 de la Federació Sardanista de les Comarques de Lleida per la seva contribució a la difusió i normalització de la sardana.
 Premi Anselm Clavé (2019): Guanyador del premi a la millor producció-espectacle per 'La Màquina del Temps'.
 Premi Capital de la Sardana (2021): Guanyador del premi a iniciatives renovadores pels vídeos divulgatius sobre sardanes.

Discografia
 En solitari
 La Màquina del temps - Cantata infantil, amb el Secretariat de Corals Infantils de Catalunya (2019).
 Cançó d'un doble amor [Musicació del poema de Josep Carner] (2020).

 Amb Segle XIII
 Entre dos mons (2004)
 Els set pecats capitals (senzill) (2008)

 Amb Obeses
 Obesisme Il·lustrat (2011)
 Zel (2013)
 El meu poble i jo (2013), Regala petons (2013), Ella contra el món (2014), Rosó (Pel teu amor) (2014).
 Monstres i Princeses (2015)
 Verdaguer: Ombres i Maduixes (2017)
 Fills de les estrelles (2018)

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Cantants catalans en català
Alumnes de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Tonencs
Alumnes de l'Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
Cantants catalans del sud contemporanis
Músics osonencs
Guitarristes catalans del sud
Artistes de Música Global
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Q: Orientability of Möbius band Can we cover the Möbius band with a finite atlas such that the determinant of the Jacobian of each transition map is negative everyhwere?

A: To expand on Olivier's comment, you can cover the Möbius band with three rectangles which overlap in thin strips. You can arrange that the transition maps are basically reflection through the $x$-axis, which is a map with negative determinant. One way to visualize this construction is as a band with three half-twists, which is indeed diffeomorphic to the usual Möbius band.


As the 40th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy approaches many will commemorate and reflect on what life was like "Before Tracy", the horror of Christmas Eve in '74 and how Australia's last frontier has matured since the devastation.
In many respects the very existence of Rugby Union in the Northern Territory can be attributed to Cyclone Tracy.
It is well documented the origins of Rugby Union in the Top End emanated from the workers who had sought an adventure and flocked to Darwin to rebuild the city and who would go on and become the founding fathers of the game locally.
Forty years on and those Young Turks are now Silver Foxes and the Northern Territory Rugby Union see it as appropriate that from 2015 onwards Senior's Card holders will be admitted free of charge to all Darwin Premiership Matches and Finals at Rugby Park.
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EV maker Revamp Moto of Shark Tank fame in talks to raise $3.5 million
The round will be led by a Dubai-based investor, said Pritesh Mahajan, a co-founder. The company is also in talks with multiple Indian venture capitalists and another Dubai-based real estate player for the round for raising funds.
Nehal Chaliawala
New Delhi: Electric vehicles company Revamp Moto, which shot into prominence after its founders appeared on reality TV show Shark Tank India, is in talks with investors to raise $3-3.5 million as it looks to bring to market its first model and finish the development of the second.
The Dubai-based lead investor will not only bring capital but also help the company expand into the Middle East and North Africa regions in the future, Mahajan said.
While the company is yet to launch its product, it has begun pilot trials with platforms such as Swiggy and Vogo, he said. It will soon also be starting similar pilots with Flipkart, Amazon, Zomato and Jubilant FoodWorks.
Revamp Moto had earlier raised over $1 million in its pre-seed funding round from investors including Veda VC and Venture Catalysts besides Aman Gupta, Anupam Mittal, Ashneer Grover, and Peeyush Bansal on the show Shark Tank.
The company has outsourced the assembly of its scooters to a Bhiwandi, Maharashtra-based manufacturer that will make up to 80,000 units annually. It has no plans presently to set up its own assembly line.
"With just $1 million in the bank, we wanted to be asset-light and put the money into R&D instead. So, we outsourced the assembly operation," Mahajan told ET.
The funds raised in the ongoing round will be utilised to develop its second model, which will be a high-speed electric two-wheeler called Mitra.
Its first model, codenamed RM25, will be launched in India in the coming month and will be a low-speed electric two-wheeler with around 70 kilometres of range.
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Q: How can I modify the netcat command line to send many requests at once Let's suppose there is a TCP server listening to port 8080.
The client connects and sends, for example, a "hello" message after using the Netcat command:
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How can I send the "hello" message 1000 times without me being typing? Can I access the Netcat file and add a 'for' or 'while' loop?

A: No need to modify nc; just pipe your input to it: yes hello | head -n 1000 | nc localhost:8080.


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Golden Gate Photo - Other Localities in Utah
Fine Art Photography from Various Other Sites in Utah.
Goosenecks of the San Juan River
This is the classic locality to demonstrate the process of incised meanders. The ancestral San Juan River meandered its way across the flat plain seen now at the horizon. This meandering pattern is indicative of a very flat river gradient. The San Juan River began carving into the Pennsylvanian-age Hermosa Formation about 8 to 10 million years ago. The original meandering pattern of the river was preserved in this area as it carved deeper without breaching the sides of its banks. The river valley is now over 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep.
Print No. A97SW-29-10
Image of sun rays over the Goosenecks
Sheep Creek Geological Area
Named after the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep that inhabit the area, this site is dominated by the Uinta Crest Fault, a section of folded and twisted rock that reveals millions of years of geological history. Along Highway 44, signposts explain the formations and geologic ages as you pass through them.
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Devil's Kitchen Geologic Interest Area
Along the Nebo Scenic Loop Highway in the Wasatch Mountains, these eroded sandstone formations are reminiscent of a miniature Bryce Canyon.
Print No. A99-40-7
Mexican Hat Rock
Located in the southeast corner of Utah, this Permian-age sandstone formation is the reason the adjacent town of Mexican Hat got its name. The balanced rock is about 60 feet (18 meters) in diameter. Behind it is the southern end of Comb Ridge, which includes a Pennsylvanian-age shale unit that was exploited for oil production.
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Little Sahara Dunes
Little Sahara Recreation Area lies along the southeastern edge of the Sevier Desert. The sand dunes here originated from deposits of the Sevier River which flowed into the Pleistocene-age Lake Bonneville 15,000 years ago. As the climate changed, the lake receded to become the Great Salt Lake. Prevailing winds from the southwest carried the sand from the now dry plains to the eastern edges of the desert where it piled up. This view is looking south, toward Sand Mountain.
Located in Weber Canyon, 8 miles east of Morgan, Utah, the Devil's Slide is a pair of limestone beds from a 170 million year old shallow sea. The limestone was turned on end during the uplifting of the Sevier Mountain Belt, beginning about 100 million years ago. Periods of uplift and erosion eventually resulted in the present Wasatch Mountains and the exposure of these beds.
This tilted slab lies along the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. The 3-toed footprints are roughly the size of an adult hand and the stride between footprints is about 5 feet (1.5 meters). Recently, and perhaps unfortunately, a parking area for off-road enthusiasts was constructed adjacent to this site, providing very easy access to this unique exposure.
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Lepismium monacanthum és una espècie vegetal del gènere Lepismium de la família de les cactàcies.

Descripció
Lepismium monacanthum creix de forma epífita i arbustiva amb tiges molt ramificades, inicialment verticals, posteriorment penjants. Els segments de les tiges són aplanats a triangulars tenen fins a 45 centímetres de llarg i entre 2 a 3 centímetres d'amplada. Les vores són serrades. Les arèoles són llanoses de color groguenc, tenen una o dues espines negres fortes i penetrants de 6 a 10 mil·límetres de llarg.

Les flors són de color taronja apareixen lateralment prop de les puntes dels brots. Tenen fins a 1,5 centímetres de llarg. El pericarpel és glabre. Els fruits són esfèrics i són de color taronja a rosa clar.

Distribució
Lepismium monacanthum es troba al sud-est dels departaments bolivians Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz i Tarija i estès al nord-oest de l'Argentina a les províncies de Jujuy i Salta a altituds de 300 a 2000 metres.

Taxonomia
Lepismium monacanthum va ser descrita per Wilhelm A. Barthlott i publicat a Bradleya; Yearbook of the British Cactus and Succulent Society 5: 99. 1987.

Etimologia
Lepismium : nom genèric que deriva del grec: "λεπίς" (lepis) = "recipient, escates, apagat" i es refereix a la forma en què en algunes espècies les flors es trenquen a través de l'epidermis.

monacanthum: epítet llatí d'origen grec que significa "amb una espina"

 Sinonímia
 Rhipsalis monacantha`` Griseb. (1879) (basiònim)
 Acanthorhipsalis monacantha (Griseb.) Britton & Rose (1923)
 Pfeiffera monacantha'' (Griseb.) P.V.Heath (1994).

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For new people: what's a "WCDT"? Why is it important?
It stands for "Weekly Comic Discussion Thread", and is the preferred place for comments that are specifically about the current comic or current story.
This is an unfortunate source of confusion for people just starting to read the board, but all attempts to spell out the name in full have run out of room or sacrificed other information in the title.
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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, in a comic book personally overseen by King himself, Roland's past is revealed! Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, adapted by long-time Stephen King expert, Robin Furth (author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance), and scripted by New York Times Bestseller Peter David, this series delves in depth into Roland's origins - the perfect introduction to this incredibly realized world; while long-time fans will thrill to adventures merely hinted at in the novels. Be there for the very beginning of a modern classic of fantasy literature!
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The Curricula and Sustainability Working Group of CADEP-CRUE comprises more than 15 Spanish Universities as a network supporting curriculum development processes and innovative teaching projects for sustainability skills development.
The focus of ESD in fostering by CADEP-CRUE based on: (1) the learning of cross-cutting skills-building in the attitudinal, methodological and cognitive sphere; (2) critical contextualisation of knowledge; (3) participation in community, and (4) application of ethical principles –holism, complexity, glocalisation, mainstreaming and university social responsibility- in professional practice and personal life.
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Ireland's Blasphemy Law on Referendum This October
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Ireland is finally going to hold a referendum about its blasphemy law, and it will take place this October. The Irish government has approved the preparation of a bill to remove blasphemy as part of a commitment to constitutional reforms. This referendum will take place just months after citizens successfully overturned the nation's ban on abortion, and it is another step in Ireland's path to change from one of the Europe's most conservative country. Ireland's government announced a referendum on this subject last September, and it is possible that this referendum will coincide with a presidential election, if one takes place.
Article 40.6.1. of the Irish Constitution includes the passage which says: "The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law."
This passage threatens freedom of speech, and in last couple of years some comedians have been accused of violating the law with their statements related to Catholic Church and God. Luckily, those cases were dropped after tons of bad publicity, but they faced a fine of up to €25,000 for their statements. In order to prevent something like this, Atheist Ireland has been campaigning for a repeal to the blasphemy law for years, and it looks like their effort is going to be rewarded.
If this referendum succeed in repealing the punishment for blasphemy, there will be benefits not only in Ireland but also in other countries that have been looking to Ireland for guidance on how to frame their own laws. According to the Patheos, Pakistan has copied the precise wording from the Irish blasphemy law verbatim, as part of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation efforts to have such provisions accepted by the United Nations. The repeal of the Irish blasphemy laws will certainly help to undermine these OIC efforts, which would be a very welcome outcome, not least for those who are victims of draconian blasphemy laws within OIC jurisdictions.
Together with this referendum, another one is probably going to take place at the same time. It is a referendum on changing a constitutional clause that prioritizes a woman's domestic role over work, a clause which specifically mentions a "woman's life within the home" in the constitution. If those two referendums take place at the same time they will probably help each other, because changing a clause that is anti-feminist will probably get liberals to the polls, and that's good for the anti-blasphemy side.
As The Guardian reports, Ireland's Minister of Justice, Charlie Flanagan said, referring to a future referendum: "In terms of Ireland's international reputation, this is an important step. By removing this provision from our constitution, we can send a strong message to the world that laws against blasphemy do not reflect Irish values and that we do not believe such laws should exist."
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Kevin Martin and his management team have selected their panel to face Laois in the 4th Round of the Allianz National Hurling League on Sunday at 12.30pm in Bord na Mona, O'Connor Park, Tullamore.
Eoghan Cahill continues between the sticks after a pleasing performance against Galway.
Tom Spain, Sean Gardiner and Ben Conneely will be his first line of defence while David O'Toole, Pat Camon and Paddy Delaney make up the half back line.
David King is joined by Tommy Geraghty in midfield and Joe Bergin Shane Dooley and Colin Egan form a formidable half forward line.
The full forward line is an all Kilcormac-Killoughey affair with Cillian Kiely, Conor Mahon and Dan Currams leading the line.
The game throws in at 12.30pm on Sunday afternoon in Bord na Mona O'Connor Park in Tullamore.


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SYDNEY, July 9 (Reuters) - Asian share markets crept higher on Monday following favourable U.S. jobs data, while sterling slipped after two members of the British government resigned over Brexit and put the future of Prime Minister Theresa May in doubt.
The pound peeled off around a third of a U.S. cent to $1.3292 in early trading as news broke British Brexit Secretary David Davis and Brexit Minister Steven Baker had resigned.
The balanced report helped Wall Street end last week in the black and Japan's Nikkei followed up with gains of 1 percent on Monday.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.2 percent, on top of 0.7 percent rally on Friday when the launch of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports came and went without too many fireworks.
Against a basket of currencies the dollar had pulled back to 93.925, from a top of 94.486 on Friday. The euro held its gains at $1.1750, while the dollar was flat on the yen at 110.48.
In commodity markets, oil prices were little moved in early trade after a mixed end to last week.
U.S. crude futures gained 2 cents to $73.82 a barrel, while Brent eased 1 cent to $77.10 a barrel.
Gold was little changed at $1,256.39 an ounce.


D&N - Dependency and Neglect: This is defined as an act, or failure to act, on the part of a parent or caretaker that results in the death, serious physical or emotional harm, or sexual abuse, which places the child in an imminent risk of serious harm. When these issues arise the Juvenile Court will point or order the assistance of a Guardian ad Litem. A Guardian ad Litem is an attorney for the minor child or children. It is their job to advocate for what is in the child or children's best interest.
Guardianships: A guardian is a person who has the legal authority and the corresponding duty to care for the personal and property interests of another person. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the individual is incapable of caring for his or her own interests due to infancy, incapacity, or disability. Many times children determined to be dependent and neglected are put under the care of a legal guardian.
Parental Termination: If the dependency and neglect issues are not resolved correctly the parents' rights may be terminated. This can be done voluntarily or involuntarily. Courts and judges make decisions about terminating parental rights based on a variety of factors. Birth parents' rights must be terminated before a child can be adopted.


Ric Young, President of E.Y.E, a Toronto-based agency specializing in strategies that promote social change, spoke on social innovation to Net Change Week in Toronto. This week-long event is designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change.
Young, a member of Ecotrust Canada's board of directors, has been the architect of numerous campaigns for change and social innovation projects in areas ranging from health, environmental sustainability and ethics in sport, to citizen engagement, corporate social responsibility, community development and global humanitarian relief.
In Conversation with Ric Young from SiG @ MaRS on Vimeo.
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Now that 2016 is underway, there has been a number of announcements coming through from various data companies and manufacturers confirming, not just how the industry has performed during the last quarter, but also during the last year. The latest of which is now emerging from IDC and offers an insight into how the fourth quarter of 2015, as well as 2015 in total, performed in terms of worldwide smartphone shipments.
In terms of the numbers for Q4, according to the IDC, Samsung remains the largest worldwide smartphone shipper with a total of 85.6 million units shipped. Which equated to a market share for the fourth quarter of 21.4-percent and a year-over-year level of growth of 14-percent. Apple came in second and saw their total number of shipments reaching 74.8 million for the quarter. While this marked a new high for Apple and equated to an 18.7-percent market share, it only represented a 0.4-percent level of year-over-year growth. In contrast, although Xiaomi and Lenovo saw much lower levels of market share, they both saw the highest year-over-year levels of growth. In Huawei's case, this resulted in 32.4 million units shipped in Q4, a market share of 8.1-percent and a year-over-year growth of 37-percent. For Lenovo, the Q4 shipments totaled 20.2 million, which was a market share of 5.1-percent and a year-over-year growth of 43.6-percent. Closing out the top 5 for Q4 was Xiaomi, who saw shipments totaling 18.2 million, a market share of 4.6-percent and a year-over-year growth of 10-percent.
Moving on to the year in general and leading Q4 helped Samsung to cement their position at the top smartphone manufacturer for 2015, with total shipments coming in at 324.8 million, a market share of 22.7-percent. While the numbers are impressive, the reality is that Samsung only saw a year-over-year growth of 2.1-percent. The lowest of the top 5. Apple who were second for the year shipped 231.5 million smartphones, which was a 16.2-percent market share and equated to a year-over-year growth of 20.2-percent. Huawei saw the biggest year-over-year growth of the top 5 (44.3-percent) and saw their total shipments reach 106.6 million smartphones, a 7.4-percent market share. Lenovo also saw a solid year-over-year performance (24.5-percent), with shipments reaching 74 million and a 5.2-percent market share. Likewise, Xiaomi shipped 70.8 million smartphones and saw a market share for 2015 of 4.9-percent and a year-over-year growth of 22.8-percent.
While the figures show mixed results for each of the big manufacturers, the overall results of the data suggest smartphones shipments are healthy. IDC notes that for Q4 a total of 399.5 million smartphones were shipped, which is a 5.7-percent increase compared to the year before. Even more impressively, for 2015, more than 1.4 billion (1432.9 million) smartphones were shipped. This marked a 10.1-percent increase from the previous year and saw 2015 become the highest on record for smartphone shipments.


The candidacy of the Government of the State of Quintana Roo through the Ministry of Tourism (SEDETUR) so that the Tourism Promotion Council of Quintana Roo (CPTQ) formally serves as a member of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC, for its acronym in English) was successfully approved.
During the third day of activities of the 39th Tourism Fair of Madrid, Spain (FITUR) 2019, the Secretary of Tourism of Quintana Roo Marisol Vanegas Perez announced that the promotion agency created in the administration of Governor Carlos Joaquín just in December 2017, now will be part of the travel council of the economically strongest private sector in the world.
The WTTC is the only international organization that brings together the main actors in the travel and tourism sector, including airlines, hotels, cruises, car rental companies, travel agencies, tour operators, global distribution systems and transnational technology companies specialized in internet-related services and products to serve the travel and lodging industries.
The Council is made up of directors and executives from more than 140 world leading companies and every year they issue a document that guides the market trends and marks all the strategies of the tourism sector worldwide.
At a press conference at FITUR, the Secretary of Tourism Marisol Vanegas, proudly announced that now the state of Quintana Roo will be part of a select group that integrates only three tourism promotion councils in the world: the BCD USA, California and New York.
¨ Our requests have been accepted and we will begin the process asap. We would be the fourth council that belongs to this very important organization and we are very proud of it ". Vanegas said.
The Quintana Roo delegation at FITUR also met with Jaime Alberto Cabal, assistant general secretary of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Alejandro Varela, regional director for the Americas of the World Tourism Organization, with whom it was agreed to work on environmental issues such as the seaweed situation, so that countries that face these type of environmental related challenges can find solutions as a whole.
Thanks to the negotiations of the delegation of Quintana Roo with various airlines, there will be more frequencies and better air connectivity for the Mexican Caribbean.
The Director of the Tourism Promotion Council of Quintana Roo, Darío Flota Ocampo, confirmed that the airline Evelop with the Madrid-Cancun route, which has four weekly flights, will operate five frequencies starting in the summer, two of which will increase the passenger capacity of 388 to 432.
This airline also connects once a week with the Portugal-Cancun route and in May it will expand its operations to two flights per week, increasing the frequency and volume of passengers from Spain and Portugal, markets that maintain annual growth of 4% in Cancun and the Riviera Maya.


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Cashed-up Chinese are pricing the young out of the property market
By Paul Sheehan
March 10, 2014 — 3.00am
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We need the Chinese. But the growth of the Chinese middle class has been so explosive, and on such a scale, that it has the capacity to affect Australia in ways that will need to be controlled if some trends continue to accelerate. Notably home buying.
There has never been a lower percentage of first-home buyers in the Australian market. They have never had to pay and borrow more to enter the market. Especially in Sydney and Melbourne, where first-home buyers now represent a tiny segment of the market, where traditionally they had been about 20 per cent. This is not culturally healthy.
First-time buyers, young buyers, are now caught in a pincer movement between superannuation and Chinese investment.
On Friday, when the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, briefed the parliamentary standing committee on economics, most of what he said was unremarkable until he said this: ''Over the past three months, approvals to build private dwellings numbered almost 50,000, an increase of about 27 per cent from a year earlier, the highest three-month total in the 30-year history of this [statistical] series.''
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Yet he then described consumer demand as ''skittish'' and business investment, outside of mining, as ''very low indeed''. In the midst of this skittish, sluggish growth, there is an exuberant housing market. It is not just low interest rates.
A survey by HSBC Bank found that more than one-third of affluent Asians own overseas property, and Australia is their number one destination. Of the wealthy mainland Chinese surveyed, 9 per cent owned property in Australia; of those surveyed in Hong Kong, 10 per cent; from Singapore, 18 per cent; and Malaysia, 26 per cent.
Given the size and wealth of the Chinese diaspora, these indicate big numbers which could become much bigger if investors from China continue to kick in and the Australian dollar continues to decline in value.
Friday's South China Morning Post had a story which began: ''Chinese investment in Australian real estate has grown 60 per cent in the past two years with buyers and developers focusing largely on Sydney and inner-city Melbourne. Huge interest from cashed-up Chinese buyers has been a major driver.''
The story then recycled news published in Australia that Juwai.com, an online real estate broker which connects Chinese buyers with overseas properties, estimates there are 63 million Chinese who could afford to buy property overseas, the fastest-growing market was Australia, and the most popular price bracket is $550,000 to $750,000 for houses or apartments.
This is pretty much what first-time property purchasers look to buy. If cashed-up Chinese buyers, and superannuation funds looking for investments, are both driving the market, this becomes a cultural issue if Australia wants to maintain the tradition of having one of the world's highest rates of home ownership.
Vancouver is further down the same road. Vancouver ranks as the second-least affordable housing market, according to the 2014 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey of 360 housing markets in nine Western countries.
Vancouver is, by far, the least affordable city in Canada for housing. The survey found Hong Kong the most expensive housing market, by far. Sydney and Melbourne rank fourth and sixth on the same list.
A common link in these markets is investment from China and the Chinese diaspora. The weight of investment in housing by the Chinese diaspora comes from multiple channels: direct investment from China and Hong Kong; investment from the Chinese middle class in Singapore and Malaysia; investment from the large Chinese community in Vancouver, and investment by Chinese immigrants who use New Zealand citizenship as the back door to Australian residency.
Hong Kong, acting to keep a lid on prices for its own citizens, has imposed a 15 per cent tax on outsiders, overwhelmingly from mainland China.
Canada has just abruptly shut down its visa scheme for wealthy foreigners, the Immigrant Investor Program, which for years was the express gateway to permanent residency. The scheme had a backlog of 65,000 applicants, most from China, and most of whom intended to live in Vancouver.
In Australia, there are no indications of any official concern at the effects of overseas buyers on prices in the Sydney and Melbourne markets. Stevens gave no indication on Friday that he thought restrictive measures were necessary. The official consensus is that the demand for property from Asia is tightly focused by suburb and in new housing developments, creating a growth in housing investment that might not otherwise exist.
While there is a recognition of the growing displacement effect caused by Australians buying investment properties for their superannuation portfolio, there is no such official concession of a displacement effect caused by blocks of units being built specifically for Asian investors, or suburban clusters favoured by Chinese buyers.
Not yet. Given the size of the Asian middle class, given its continued rapid growth, the indicators in Hong Kong and Vancouver are that curbs on foreign ownership will become an inevitable public debate if a critical mass of locals believe they are being priced out of home ownership in their own cities.
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Paul Sheehan
Paul Sheehan is a columnist and editorial writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he has has been Day Editor and Washington correspondent. He is the author of two number-one best-sellers, 'Girls Like You' and 'Among The Barbarians' and been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times and numerous anthologies.


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The Strange Pilgrim
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Tributes to Gabriel García Márquez will flow in for a while, but the loudest ones may already reside in the innumerable writers he influenced. He gave Latin American writers the courage and guile to take on the tyrants and dark epochs of their homelands, the hot caverns of the past, and perhaps most crucially, the yearning for a stable sense of identity amid backdrops of upheaval, migration, and disunity.
Michiko Kakutani writes in her appreciation:
In the end, it's not politics, but time and memory and love that stand at the heart of Mr. García Márquez's work. How the histories of continents and nations and families often loop back on themselves; how time past shapes time present; how passion can alter the trajectory of a life — these are the melodies that thread their way persistently through his fiction, reverberating in novel after novel, story after story. In later works, like the stories in "Strange Pilgrims" and the novella "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," Mr. García Márquez wrote about older characters, falling under the shadow of mortality, but then, death had long been a focal point in his work, going back to his early novella "Leaf Storm," and on through novels like "The Autumn of the Patriarch."
García Márquez's dreamscapes offer a grasp at controllable logic in a universe of institutional unfairness. On the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, Edwidge Danticat defends García Márquez's method, nowadays applied with the neat, approachable label "magical realism":
I am often surprised when people talk about the total implausibility of the events in García Márquez's fiction. Having been born and lived in a deeply spiritual and extraordinarily resourceful part of the Caribbean, a lot of what might seem magical to others often seems quite plausible to me.
Of course a woman can live inside her cat, as the character Eva does, in García Márquez's 1948 short story "Eva Is Inside Her Cat." Doesn't everyone have an aunt who's done that? And remember that neighbor who died but kept growing in his coffin, as in the 1947 story "The Third Resignation"? What seems implausible to me is a lifetime of absolute normalcy, a world in which there are no invasions, occupations, or wars, no poverty or dictators, no earthquakes or cholera.
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