What do you feel are the greatest barriers which currently hold back progress towards safer birth outcomes?
At Maternity Worldwide, we recognise the greatest barriers of safe birth outcomes as The Three Delays Model advocated by Thaddeus and Maine (1994). The first major obstacle women may face in accessing safe and appropriate childbirth is the delay in deciding to seek maternal care in the first place. This can be attributed to the low status of women, poor understanding of complications and risk factors in pregnancy and when to seek medical help, previous poor experience of health care, acceptance of maternal death or financial implications. Secondly, accessing care presents barriers which often hold back progress towards safe birth outcomes. For example, dangerous terrain, long distances to hospitals and health centres, and a lack of affordable transport my prevent women from being able to access the care they need. Lastly, the quality of maternal care itself largely influences birth outcomes. This includes poor facilities, a lack of medical supplies, inadequately trained and poorly motivated medical staff and inadequate referral systems act as the biggest barrier to safe birth outcomes. However, it is imperative to remember that often these barriers do not influence birth outcomes exclusively, but are often present in conjunction together.
Please could you describe the issues of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, and explain the work that you do to improve outcomes?
Sadly, every day across the world, 800 women die in pregnancy and childbirth. This equates to 289,000 women annually, and each death is a tragedy which often can trigger devastating effects on the family. 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries and 62% of these in Sub-Saharan Africa where we work (in Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia). Most of these lives could in fact be saved by relatively simple, inexpensive measures, and that is where we come in.
Here at Maternity Worldwide, we have a vision of a world in which all women and their babies can access safe and appropriate childbirth without fear, regardless of where they live, and to achieve this, we address each the barriers described above, to address both the supply and demand side of maternal health.
To combat the delay in the decision to reach care, we provide communities (both men and women) with information on pregnancy, childbirth and newborn healthcare so they know when to seek medical help. We also facilitate income generation schemes for women to enable them to become financially independent and empowered to make decisions about their own sexual and reproductive health and to become future leaders.
To combat the delay in accessing care, we provide transport solutions to particularly rural areas with bicycle ambulances and motorbike ambulances. We also build waiting houses next to health centres for expectant mothers to stay in before their due date so when they go into labour assistance is on site.
In addressing the biggest barrier to safe birth outcomes, the availability of adequate and safe childbirth and maternal care, we train local midwives who will remain in rural areas when qualified, training nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals to provide safe births now and for future generations. Ensuring health centres are suitably equipped to provide safe deliveries and improving referral systems between health centres and hospitals.
What is the influence of factors such as race, class, education or location (rural/urban) on birth outcomes?
At Maternity Worldwide, we recognise the importance of context, and therefore the influence of all those factors listed above as contributing to birth outcomes worldwide. Where we work in Uganda, Ethiopia and Malawi, the biggest influences on birth outcomes are in the form of location, education, and the quality of health care available. This again mirrors the 'three delays model' and our integrated programmes approach, and why we adopt it in the first place. Location can have a huge effect on birth outcomes, for many women in rural areas may live several hours away from the nearest health center and transport may be limited or costly. There may be few roads or other barriers such as mountain ranges and rivers which make it very difficult to reach care. This delay, made of obstructions to reaching care due to location, can have tragic consequences for women, particularly those in need of emergency care.
Furthermore, education can have a huge influence on birth outcomes. This has been shown by our work; from our community maternal health education groups, many women have told us of how they are now far more aware of pregnancy danger signs and to consequently seek professional help, whereas before, they may not have done. Maternal health awareness education is paramount to a woman's decision to seek care, which may ultimately prove fundamental to her birth outcome. Unfortunately, the delay in decision to access care may also stem from the low status of women (in some areas) which becomes intertwined with lack of women's education and ultimate decision to reach care, as well as not having a source of their own income; introducing gender inequality as a potential influencer on birth outcomes.
In the countries you work in, how would you describe the quality of the existing health systems for maternal health?
Unfortunately, 62% of global maternal deaths take part in Sub-Saharan African, where our work in centred. In Ethiopia, the Maternal Mortality rate stands at 335 per 100,000 births. In Uganda the figure is 343, and Malawi holds MMR at 643. Unfortunately, all three delays from the model described above are shown to amalgamate themselves in our beneficiary countries, which sadly does not fare well for healthy birth outcomes, and for these countries to ultimately fulfil Millennium Development Goal 5, whereby maternal mortality is reduced by three quarters and universal access to healthcare is ensured. Economic infrastructure can place a huge strain on the quality of health care, particularly maternal, as well as providing transport for women to appropriate health care.
There has been friction between the model of home births with traditional birth attendants, compared to more medicalised facility births. Based on your experience, where do you stand on this debate?
We recognise both the importance of skilled maternal care as imperative to saving lives in childbirth whilst also recognising the cultural and contextual importance Tradition Birth Attendants often hold, particularly in Malawi, one of our beneficiary countries.
We were involved in a research project on this very issue in July, which was titled 'Birth and Culture: The Nexus of Women's Perceptions of Maternal Rights and Care-Seeking Behavioural Patterns in the Zomba District, Malawi' (Weekley, 2018). The study highlighted cultural shifts to placing emphasis on women's maternal rights which many participants equated to skilled maternal care in conjunction with their bodily autonomy and individual choice to access this care.
There are many historical factors that may have influenced this shift, such as turbulent laws on traditional birth attendants and the role village headmen play in how a women chooses her care, but here at Maternity Worldwide, we are a very beneficiary-led charity, who places women and their needs, and what they classify as their needs, at the forefront in order to ensure sustainable progress in saving lives in childbirth.
Thaddeus, S. and Maine, D. (1994) Too far to walk: maternal mortality in context. Social science & medicine, 38(8), pp.1091-1110.


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Law enforcement officials have shared that while the women were in captivity, there three captors would forcibly rape and beat them, even while they were in a fragile pregnant state. The repeated sexual assault resulted in a total of five pregnancies between the three girls. Sources say that one of the women suffered at least two or three miscarriages during her captivity because she was malnourished.
Michelle Knight was the first woman to be captured back in 2002 at the age of 21. At the time of her kidnapping she was in the middle of a child custody battle fighting for her son. Amanda Berry first went missing back in April of 2003 and during her ten years of captivity she was impregnated and now has a six-year-old daughter. In 2004, Gina DeJesus was then kidnapped at the age of 14. While in captivity the three women were allowed to watch T.V. so they happened to see themselves on the news and had the address of the captors' home memorized. Police enforcement officials are calling Amanda Berry's actions "heroic" as it is most likely the reason that the other two women were able to escape as well. Berry escaped to a house across the street where she made a 911 phone call to dispatch. She told them the address of where to find them and said that she had escaped while Ariel Castro was away from the house.
The suspected captors were three Hispanic brothers by the names of Ariel Castro, Onil Castro and Pedro Castro. Ariel Castro, reported to be a former school bus driver, seems to be the only one that participated in the crime. The other two brothers deny any knowledge of the kidnapping and were later freed from jail. Since then, they have shared on CNN that they believe they believe their brother to be a "monster" and they wipe their hands clean of him. Whenever the brothers did go over to Ariel's home, they said that the kitchen was separated by a curtain and the radio or T.V. was always on to drown out any noise. Ariel Castro could not be facing a life sentence in prison or the death penalty.
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Разпространение и местообитание
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Received 2017 September 14; Revised 2017 October 11; Accepted 2017 October 26.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a son of a famous German psychiatrist, born in Breslau in 1906. At the time of his academia, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and maintained his public denial of the Nazi. This led to his arrest in 1943. He was linked to a group of conspirators whose attempted assassination failed; unfortunately, he was hanged in April 1945. After his execution at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, he continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world as the result of the legacy he left behind. His letters and papers from jail has become a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage and they are read by thousands of Christians around the world. This story of Life Together is a unique experience Pastor's Bonhoeffer of a Christian community. He run an underground seminary during the regime of the Nazi and was fascinated to run this seminary during the existence of this diabolical and tyrannical regime of Germany.
Life Together is a deep rooted Christian oriented book experiential which centrally places on the cost of following Jesus written by its author and martyrs, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a witness of Jesus Christ among his brethren. It gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship. The reading of Life Together serves as impetus to spiritually propel a believer to count the cost of following Jesus Christ.
This book deals with the community of people in a diverse or universal world including Christians, non-Christians, atheists, and pagans. It does not only deal with these groups as mentioned, but it also deals with days with others which include believers who bear similar cross in following Christ. It does not only deal with the days with others; but it also deals with the day alone when one is humiliated by enemy forces. It does not only deals with the days alone, but it also deals the protocols in running a successful ministry as a child of God. It finally concludes with confession and communion of sins and saints respectively.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in the community of the inclusion; so, Christians live today in the community of inclusion. This community rejects absolutism and encourages relativism. There is no absolute truth based on their humanistic ideological philosophy; therefore, the saying of the truth in their hearing becomes a weapon of provocation to them; consequently, Christians become the target of prosecution that can cause their death. The writer writes, "Jesus lived among his enemies when the disciples deserted him; therefore, Christians live in the community where there are enemies opposed to them (Bonhoeffer, pp. 26). This book addresses a community of people who are enemies for Christ's followers.
THE DAYS WITH OTHERS
In his agony during the regime of the Nazi, there were times, Bonhoeffer was alone and there were times he was physically present with the people he was pasturing. During this time, he had worship with the congregation he pastored at the time. Unfortunately, when the day of his execution came, he was no more. There are times in the Christian life, we become isolated physically or spiritual due to some situations we face at the time.
DAY ALONE
This book addresses a situation wherein the minister of God becomes isolated due to some situations either physical or spiritual. Whatever the situation may be, God is on the scene as the result of his sovereignty. The writer states, "The disintegration of communication and all genuine experience and finally resignation and spiritual life are the result of such attempts to find cure" (Bonhoffer, pp. 49). Every time we face loneliness in our lives as Christians, we feel unfulfilled. Our loneliness in lives could be due to persecution we face presently. At time of his imprisonment, he felt abandoned as the result of the break in communication with the outside world. Such experience without the Spirit of grace can make one to deny Christ as Lord and Savior. Every martyr who died for Christ had special grace and ability to stand in the face of trial without giving in to the enemies.
This book discusses the dimensions of ministry in practicality. Spiritual ministry has lot of implications when it comes to practicality. Ministers are mandated to hold their tongues. This becomes difficult for some people. The Bible says that we should be quick to listen, but slow to speak according to Proverbs. How many of us are quick to listen instead of speaking? Many a time, we speak too much instead of listening. The writer states, "Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words. It is certain that the spirit of self-justification can be overcome only by the Spirit of grace; nevertheless, isolated thoughts of judgment can be curbed and smothered by never allowing them the right to be uttered, except as a confession of sin" (Bonhoeffer, pp.91-92). This is true of spiritual battle we face daily as ministers of the Kingdom. We encounter insidious attack from the enemy through the people we lead, pastor, and even our household which includes our wives, husbands, and children. Jesus said that a man's enemy is found in his household. Due to insidious attack in which human agents are used, we tend to harbor ill-feeling against those who go against us; though, we may not expressed them. Holding our tongues should have direct effect the way we think about people who wrong us. This can be resolved by forgiving those we wrong us.
In ministry, we are not only called to hold our tongue; but we are also called to listen. He writes, "The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them" (Bonhoeffer, pp. 97). The people whom you listen to, is the person whom you honor. Listening is the act of respecting or honoring the person listened to. If we are ministers of God, we should learn to listen to our wives, husbands, children, and the people we lead as leaders. Listening to someone means also loving the person with Christ's love.
We are not only called to listen, but we are also called into the ministry of help. Help ministry is the important component that is crucial to having a successful well-run and manageable ministry. It is the ministry of service and generosity that pastors' wives are anticipated to be involved. The ministry of mercy is intertwined with the ministry of help.
One of the foremost important aspects of this ministry is the ministry of teaching or preaching. When Jesus ascended into heaven according to Ephesians 4:11-13, he gave gifts to men for the purpose of equipping the saints for the work of the ministry so that they become matured and not be carried away by every wind of doctrines. Ministers are called and placed in the ministry of discipleship. We are to disciple the people of God so that they can also go out to disciple others. This is the theory of leadership multiplication in the Kingdom. Paul commanded Timothy in Timothy to carry out this strategy of disciple-making in the Kingdom of God.
We are not only called to the ministry of proclamation, but we are also called to exercise authority over the people that God has given us. The exercise of authority over the church should start with our homes. The Bible declares if a man is not able to control his home, he can not be the leader of God's people. If wives or children are not paying due respect to the pastor husband; then, it becomes a problem for the pastor to manage the house of God. The fact is that once the wife or children are not respecting the husband in the home, the possibility which exists is that the woman is going to carry it out on the church level as well. This makes pastors' wives very important figure in the Gospel ministry. The wife of pastor should be a support to him and not a destructive force to pull him and church ministry down. This is frustrating and heart breaking for the pastor who has the vision to reach people.
These areas mentioned such as community of people, the days with others, the days alone, and the protocols involved in running a successful and viable ministry are situations God places and uses to lead the believers to set Goals that can never be forgotten. Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a signature for such declaration. He is dead, but he is still speaking will continue to speak throughout generations as long as his book remains on planet earth prior to the return of Christ. Today, our contemporary world of Christianity can stand for the truth because men and women had died for this Gospel we preach. In all of these, God who is a sovereign God who is in the business of making his will known through men for men of martyrdom.


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Samantha has written, 'Deception in the Shadows - Gerica's Tale'. She's always been interested in fairy tales, mysteries or anything that took her to a far off land.
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// This file is part of MLDB. Copyright 2015 mldb.ai inc. All rights reserved.

#define BOOST_TEST_MAIN
#define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
#include "mldb/http/http_endpoint.h"
#include "mldb/soa/service/active_endpoint.h"
#include "mldb/soa/service/passive_endpoint.h"
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include "mldb/base/scope.h"
#include "mldb/arch/exception_handler.h"
#include "mldb/utils/testing/watchdog.h"
#include "mldb/jml/utils/testing/fd_exhauster.h"
#include <poll.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace ML;
using namespace MLDB;

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( test_accept_speed )
{
    Watchdog watchdog(5.0);

    string connectionError;

    PassiveEndpointT<SocketTransport> acceptor("acceptor");

    string error;

    struct TestHandler : HttpConnectionHandler {

        TestHandler(string & error)
            : bytesDone(0), error(error)
        {
        }

        int bytesDone;
        string & error;

        virtual void handleData(const std::string & data)
        {

            bytesDone += data.size();
            if (bytesDone > 1000000)
                throw MLDB::Exception("allowed infinite headers");
            HttpConnectionHandler::handleData(data);
        }

        virtual void handleError(const std::string & error)
        {
            cerr << "got error " << error << endl;
            this->error = error;
        }

        virtual void
        handleHttpHeader(const HttpHeader & header)
        {

            cerr << "got header " << header << endl;
        }

        virtual void handleHttpChunk(const HttpHeader & header,
                                     const std::string & chunkHeader,
                                     const std::string & chunk)
        {
            cerr << "chunkHeader " << chunkHeader << endl;
            //cerr << "chunk has " << chunk.length() << " bytes" << endl;
        }

    };

    acceptor.onMakeNewHandler = [&] ()
        {
            return MLDB::make_std_sp(new TestHandler(error));
        };

    int port = acceptor.init();

    cerr << "port = " << port << endl;

    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(acceptor.numConnections(), 0);

    // Date before = Date::now();

    /* Open a connection */
    int s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if (s == -1)
        throw Exception("socket");

    //cerr << "i = " << i << " s = " << s << " sockets.size() = "
    //     << sockets.size() << endl;

    struct sockaddr_in addr = { AF_INET, htons(port), { INADDR_ANY } };
    //cerr << "before connect on " << s << endl;
    int res = connect(s, reinterpret_cast<const sockaddr *>(&addr),
                      sizeof(addr));
    //cerr << "after connect on " << s << endl;

    if (res == -1) {
        cerr << "connect error: " << strerror(errno) << endl;
        close(s);
    }

    /* Try to write 32MB of headers into the socket. */
    const char * buf = "header: 9012345678901234567890\r\n";

    int written = 0;
    int writeError = 0;

    for (unsigned i = 0;  i < 1000000;  ++i) {
        int res = write(s, buf, strlen(buf));
        if (res > 0)
            written += res;
        else if (res == 0)
            throw MLDB::Exception("nothing written");
        else {
            writeError = errno;
            cerr << strerror(errno) << endl;
            cerr << "error after writing " << written << " bytes"
                 << endl;
            break;
        }
    }

    // Check we didn't write more than 1MB before the error...
    BOOST_CHECK_LT(written, 1000000);
    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(writeError, ECONNRESET);
    BOOST_CHECK_NE(error.find("HTTP header exceeds"), string::npos);

    cerr << "wrote " << written << " bytes" << endl;

    close(s);

    acceptor.shutdown();
}


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>> [_] Anon 3281221 but how do I make some nice cake?
[_] Recipe inside ( for real ) :v 3250104 A really nice cake (with a quirky twist) JUST LIKE /f/ >! Tomato soup cake (it's really just a spice cake....but its easy cheap and good) Get yo sum: 2 Cups AP-flour 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 Tbsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp all spice 2 tsp cinnamon 1 10 ounce can condense tomato soup 1/2 cup veg oil or crisco lard bar 3 eggies 1/4 cup water Cream cheese frosting: 1/2 cup butter (a stick) 8 oz softened cream cheese 2-3 cups powdered sugar some vanilla extract 1-2 tsp depending on preference Oven at 350 grease, or butter and lightly flour two 8 inch rounds or spring forms w/e you use. (can be made in cupcake trays as well just don't over fill as they expand a bit) In a Bowl: sift in flour, sugar, baking powder/soda and spices. mix it about add the wets soup, oil, egg, water stir to combine don't be super rough with it, do it by hand with a spatulur and fold more than mix. helps with consistency (or so I am told) divide into cake pans or whatever your using Bake 20-30 min depending on how bitchy your oven is. toothpick test to check for done-ness set on wire rack in tins to cool for at least an hour Cream cheese frosting how do: Electric mixer makes this pretty easy cream butter and cream cheese and then add vanil extract slowly add powdered sugar until its a pleasing consistency Turn cakes out onto cutting board, cut domes off and slap a blob of frosting on the top of the bottom and put the other cut-side down onto the spread out frosting. Frost the outside Write your goodbye note in gel icing pen hang yourself >but don't but the cake under you when you hang yourself, it'll get doodoo on it. Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 3250142 >Recipe is finally inside again I missed these! Thanks!
>> [_] Anon 3250182 >># Thanks, mom!
>> [_] :v 3250191 >># I'll try and keep it up, I will just complain in the margins.


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Graeme Danby performs on the opening weekend with an evening of Northumbrian Song and Opera at Eshott Hall as part of the Northumbrian Music Festival
The North East's very own Opera star, Graeme Danby, is set to perform at the Northumbria Music Festival again this year, as it goes on tour for the very first time. Graeme will perform at the beginning of the tour at Eshott Hall near Morpeth on Saturday 15th of October, with a repertoire consisting of traditional Northumbrian Folk Songs and music combined with his North East philosophy. For those attending, this performance is a magical music and culinary tour of the North East with the evening commencing with a gourmet, three course dinner.
Graeme's performance will be a celebration of the musical heritage of the North East. It will feature songs that highlight our region's fascinating history. Renowned for his strong and dramatic bass, and noted for his performances before the crowds at St James' Park, Consett born Graeme, is a regular performer at the Royal Opera House. Passionate about the region, Graeme is artistic director of the North East Proms and is an active tutor in the performing arts department at the University of Sunderland.
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The Northumbrian Music Festival is now in its sixth year and for the first time is going on tour, bring its eclectic mix of traditional, classical and popular music to audiences across South Scotland, Cumbria and Northumberland. Performances will be hosted at Dalhousie Castle, Ednam House and the Wordsworth Hotel for the first time, alongside previous hosts Eshott Hall and Doxford Hall.
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Why do Conservative Catholics and Muslims Homeschool?
December 17, 2012 by Milton Gaither
This post reviews Jeff Humason, "Homeschoolers on Homeschooling: In Their Own Words" (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toledo, 2012) [available here]
Humason, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toledo with experience both as a public school teacher/administrator and as a Catholic homeschooling father of six (one of whom attends a public school), here presents the results of a series of interviews he conducted with several homeschooling parents to ascertain why they do what they do.
He begins with a survey of American educational history, both of institutional schooling and of the homeschooling movement that emerged as a reaction to it in the 1970s. He next explains why he went with in-depth interviews. Prior studies on parental motivation have tended to rely on surveys that reduce possible motivations to a few pre-established categories, asking parents simply to check which box applies to them. Humason believes that such an approach might miss the complexity of the issue. He wants instead to understand more deeply what is motivating homeschooling parents, in part so that public schools might possibly learn what they can do to win some of these families back.
Humason interviewed four married couples, all of whom had been homeschooling for at least ten years, to get their views. Several of these families (it is not clear how many) were friends of Humason's prior to the study. He acknowledges that this convenience sample makes it impossible to generalize his findings. Of his four couples, three are White Catholics and one African American Muslim. All have five or more children. All are middle to upper-middle class, with a breadwinner father and a stay-at-home or part-time working mother. Each couple was interviewed for about an hour, asked a series of questions pertaining to their motivations for homeschooling and their perceptions of institutional schools.
The clear message all four of these families communicated to Humanson was that they were motivated mostly by a desire to maintain "parental control of what values their children learn," accompanied by "serious concern about the ability of institutional schools to educate their children according to an acceptable standard of values." (p. 67) When asked what institutional schools could possibly do to make themselves more attractive to these homeschooling families, most of the parents stressed that it wasn't the act of institutional schooling itself that was necessarily the problem. The problem is that the broader culture has shifted away from conservative Christian values to a more pluralistic, or relativistic approach where all values are equally acceptable. So long as the public school system reflects this broader shift toward accomodating multiple perspectives on moral values, these families feel that they are a danger to their children. Over and over in the interview material one reads variations on the complaint that the schools no longer teach "moral absolutes."
A secondary theme that was frequently mentioned was that institutional schools tend to "dumb down " the population. Even Catholic and Islamic schools, these parents believe, are just as committed to cultural relativism and intellectual mediocrity. The parents on the whole did not think there was any hope that schools would change, nor did they feel any personal responsibility to work toward that goal. They had left institutional schooling and the larger society it reflected utterly behind and no longer gave it any thought.
Finally, these homeschooling parents think very highly of other homeschoolers. They appreciate the fact that other homeschooling families provide their children with friends whose families share the same values. They especially appreciate how respectful and well-behaved homeschooled children are.
Humason is right of course that one can't generalize from four anecdotes to an entire population. But his data is interesting to me nonetheless. Why? Because it's so predictable. Here we have three Catholic families and one Muslim family, and the things these parents are saying are exactly the same things conservative Protestants say. The irony here is hard to miss. These conservatives are just as religiously diverse as is the American mainstream against which they have positioned themselves, and were any of them to win political power we'd be right back to the acrimony of previous centuries when these very religious groups were killing one another by the thousands. But Humanson's study articulates the essential logic of conservative religious homeschooling. If a parent believes 1. that her views are the only true views, and 2. that the larger society does not share her views, and 3. that institutional schools reflect the larger society and thus cannot possibly embrace her views, then homeschooling almost has to follow. Homeschooling provides a way for these families to escape the pluralistic public square and to build sacred umbrellas around their (large) nuclear families. There are of course many other kinds of homeschoolers to whom these rationales will not apply, but for the religious conservative, I think Humason's got it pretty much right even though all he did was interview his friends and a Muslim family he chanced upon.
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on December 28, 2012 at 8:28 pm Correne
I've been homeschooling for 7 years, and have many non-religious friends. My impression is that most of us homeschool because we have strong values and a strong desire for control. I think that many of us feel that the culture in schools does not support our family values (whether it's environment, social justice, food choices, anti-consumerism, home-steading, protecting kids from over-sexualization, or simply living an active, healthy lifestyle). We feel strongly enough about it that we choose homeschooling.
People are often trying to compare religious and secular homeschoolers, but I believe that we are more similar than dissimilar. Both groups want to truly live their values, and homeschooling allows them the freedom to do it.
Public school is all about compromising, and some of us don't want to compromise.


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Die Konstitutionen erfüllten mehrere Funktionen. Neben dem offensichtlichen Zweck, das bis dahin nicht exakt und umfassend kodifizierte Recht Siziliens festzuschreiben, nutzte Friedrich das Gesetzeswerk vor allem als Kampfinstrument in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Papst. Darüber hinaus stellte der Kaiser sich damit in die Tradition der römischen Kaiser, insbesondere Justinians, und legitimierte seinen Machtanspruch.

Auslöser für die Arbeiten an den Konstitutionen von Melfi waren Gerüchte, denen zufolge der katalanische Dominikaner Raimund von Penyafort im Auftrag des Papstes eine ähnliche Sammlung erstelle. Friedrich II. wollte ihm zuvorkommen, um dadurch die juristische Hoheit über Sizilien zu gewinnen und sich wie andere Herrscher seiner Zeit als Gesetzgeber zu profilieren. Der Zeitdruck bei der Erstellung der Konstitutionen hatte zur Folge, dass 1232 und 1233 jeweils Änderungen an ihnen vorgenommen werden mussten. Maßgeblich daran beteiligt war wohl Petrus de Vinea.

Durchgehendes Motiv des Gesetzeswerks ist die Ausrichtung von Recht und Verwaltung auf den König und seine Beamten sowie die Sicherung der königlichen Einnahmen. Wo sie mit dem königlichen Machtanspruch nicht kollidierten, wurden die Rechte des Adels gestärkt sowie juristische Prozesse beschleunigt.

Wichtigste Einzelregelungen waren das Verbot der gewaltsamen Selbsthilfe und die Einschränkung des Gerichtswesens der Stände. Der königlichen Justiz sprach das Gesetzeswerk das alleinige Recht zur Strafverfolgung zu, auch in Fällen, die an das kirchliche Recht grenzten, beispielsweise Ehebruch, Gotteslästerung oder Glücksspiel. Im sogenannten "Edikt von Salerno" erfolgte, ausgehend vom Lehr- und Forschungsbetrieb an der Medizinschule von Salerno, dessen Inhalte Eingang in das die Medizinalgesetzgebung erst ermöglichende Antidotarium Nicolai fanden, die gesetzliche Abgrenzung des Ärztestandes vom Apothekerwesen. Die einzelnen Regelungen wurden aus dem byzantinischen, kanonischen, langobardischen, normannischen und römischen Recht übernommen.

Soweit in den Konstitutionen nichts anderes bestimmt wurde, galten die Rechte der verschiedenen Volksgruppen weiter. Übernommen wurde die Gesetzgebung Rogers II. (Assisen von Ariano), der Könige Wilhelm I. und Wilhelm II. sowie die von Friedrich selbst verkündeten Assisen von Capua. Die Konstitutionen galten im Königreich Neapel bis 1809, in Sizilien bis 1819.

Für Knut Görich gelten die Konstitutionen von Melfi als "programmatische[s] Bekenntnis zum geschriebenen Recht gegenüber ungeschriebenen Rechtsgewohnheiten". Görich führt dies vor allem auf süditalienischen Einfluss zurück.

Literatur
 Wolfgang Stürner (Hrsg.): Die Konstitutionen Friedrichs II. für das Königreich Sizilien. MGH Const. 2 Suppl. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996. ISBN 3-7752-5470-6
 Hermann Conrad, Thea von der Lieck-Buyken u. Wolfgang Wagner (Hrsg.): Die Konstitutionen  Friedrichs II. von Hohenstaufen für sein Königreich Sizilien. Studien und Quellen zur Welt Kaiser Friedrichs II. Bd. 2. Böhlau, Köln/Wien 1973 (lat. und dt.). ISBN 978-3-412-02277-8
 Hermann Dilcher: Die sizilische  Gesetzgebung Kaiser Friedrichs II. Quellen der Constitutionen von Melfi und ihrer Novellen. Studien und Quellen zur Welt Kaiser Friedrichs II. Bd. 3. Böhlau, Köln/Wien 1975.
 Thea von der Lieck-Buyken: Die Konstitutionen Friedrichs II. von Hohenstaufen für sein Königreich Sizilien. Ergänzungsband. 1. Teil: Der griechische Text. Studien und Quellen zur Welt Kaiser Friedrichs II. Bd. 5,1. Böhlau, Köln/Wien 1978, 1986. ISBN 3-412-01285-8
 Anna Laura Trombetti Budriesi: Il "Liber Augustalis" di Federico II di Svevia nella storiografia. Antologia di scritti. Patròn, Bologna 1987.

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Rechtsquelle des Mittelalters
!Konstitutionen von Melfi
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Friedrich II. (HRR)
Rechtsgeschichte (Italien)


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The problem is, every time I think I know why I blog, some other reason springs to mind.
To record the world as it is. To set down the past before it is all forgotten. To excavate the past because it has been forgotten. To satisfy my desire for revenge. Because I knew I had to keep writing or else I would die. Because to write is to take risks, and it is only by taking risks that we know we are alive. To produce order out of chaos. To delight and instruct (not often found after the early twentieth century, or not in that form). To please myself. T express myself. To express myself beautifully. To create a perfect work of art. To reward the virtuous and to punish the guilty; or – the Marquis de Sade defence, used by ironists – vice versa. To hold a mirror up to Nature. To hold a mirror up to the reader. To paint a portrait of society and its ills. To express the unexpressed life of the masses. To name the hitherto unnamed. To defend the human spirit, and human integrity and honor. To thumb my nose at Death. To make money so that my children could have shoes. To make money so I could sneer at those who formerly sneered at me. To show the bastards. Because to create is human. Because to create is Godlike. Because I hated the idea of having a job. To say a new word. To make a new thing. To create a national consciousness, or a national conscience. To justify my failures in school. To justify my own view of myself and my life, because I couldn't be a 'writer' unless I actually did some writing. To make myself appear more interesting than I actually was. To attract the love of a beautiful woman. To attract the love of any woman at all. To attract the love of a beautiful man. To rectify my imperfections and my miserable childhood. To thwart my parents. To spin a fascinating tale. To amuse and please the reader. To amuse and please myself. To pass the time, even though it would have passed anyway. Graphomania. Compulsive logorrhea. Because I was driven to it by some force outside my control. Because I was possessed. Because an angel dictated to me. Because I fell into the embrace of the Muse. Because I got pregnant by the Muse and needed to give birth to a book. Because I had books instead of children (several twentieth-century woman). To serve Art. To serve the Collective Unconscious. To serve History. To justify the ways of God towards man. To act out antisocial behaviour for which I would have been punished in real life. To master a craft so that I could generate texts. To subvert the Enlightenment. To demonstrate that whatever is, is right. To experiment with new forms of perception. To create a recreational boudoir so that the reader could go into it and have fun. Because the story took hold of me and wouldn't let me go (the Ancient Mariner defense). To search for understanding of reader and myself. To cope with my depression. For my children. To make a name that would survive death. To defend a minority group or oppressed class. To speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. To expose appalling wrongs or atrocities. To record the times through which I have lived. To bear witness to horrifying events that I have survived. To speak for the dead. To celebrate life in all of its complexity. To praise the universe. To allow for the possibility of hope and redemption. To give back something of what has been given to me.
At the end of the day, why we do anything is always complicated.
In this myriad of explanations and elaborations, I therefore have another reason to add to my ongoing discussion about why to blog. My latest thought is that blogging provides a means for meta-reflection, the possibility to look back through past opinions and practises. An example of this in action is Alan Levine's post 'From Javier to Norbert'. In it, Levine is able call on his vast digital repository to reflect upon past experiences of the Grand Canyon to recollect his experience of being caught in the canyon in the midst of a flood.
It needs to be understood that such reflection is in addition to the actual act of reflection that is often a central part of each and every blog post. For as Clive Thompson accounts in his book, Smarter Than You Think, that in world where abundance is ever present, technology allows us to keep and curate memories that we may have otherwise have lost. I recently had a moment of meta-reflection as I went through my posts and adjusted the categories having moved from Blogger to WordPress. It was an interesting experience skimming back through what I had written. Although some posts never leave you, there are others that in rereading them create an uncanny feeling. That moment where you have to check yourself, wondering if you actually wrote it and what was going on at the time. A message from the past to remind you of those underlying values, beliefs and events that sometimes drop out of our memory overtime.
Celebrating Other Voices in the Moment – I don't think that I realised how raw this post was until I looked back on it a few months later. I remember getting a few tweets at the time about how open I was, but sometimes when you are in the moment you don't always see that. Perspective can take time. I have reread it a few times since and each time it reminds me to always be mindful of those moments that are so easy to pass on by.
This Is My #EduDream What Is Yours? – It is a challenging exercise laying out your supposed dreams. Not only is it difficult to articulate them in a meaningful manner, but there is a certain lie and fragility in giving voice to them. For dreams and ideals are are neither static nor wholly our own, therefore to commit oneself to such a fixed notion can miss something. For as I have written in the past, ideals are not always ideal. Interestingly, one person stated, such 'dreams' are best formed collectively as a community. I have subsequently found that the more I engage with others in education the more I question each of the assertions I laid down. I critique them and they continue to evolve. For as I have mused elsewhere, ideas are best held loosely, for it is only then that they can actually grow.
Learning to Learn by Learning – a Reflection on a Collaborative Project – This was an attempt to collect together my thoughts and experiences in regards to a presentation Steve Brophy and I did at DLTV2014. I say 'attempt' because even though the conference has long gone, the actual experience continues on. I initially contacted Brophy with two thoughts in mind: how do you collaborate on a topic with someone from a different educational background who you do not necessarily know and what would be an alternative format to the usual conference experience of chalk and talk. Without a script to go by, to ascertain 'success', I often think back over the choices we made and wonder. Would it have been different if we weren't in a lecture theatre? Could we have done anything to make the session more interactive and hands on? What did people actually come away with? Going out on a limb into the unknown as we did, I think that it will be one of those moments of learning which I will always come back to again and again as a point of reflection.
Although these posts may not have been the most read by others, they are the posts that mean something to me and sometimes this is the forgotten element. For as Pernille Ripp recently wrote, "Start your blogging journey for yourself". To add to that, make sure it is always about yourself first and fore-mostly.
I remember reading a post from Doug Belshaw in which he wrote a letter to his past self with some advice and general pointers. Flipping this idea, I think that we can undersell our past selves for failing to find the solutions for tomorrow. Stopping and looking back on the past can be often be the catalyst needed to drive you forward. Blogging provides an easy means for doing this.
So what are those moments of learning that have made a difference with you this year? Would love to know. See you in the new year.
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Uncanny Reflections on a Year Blogging by Aaron Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Aaron, poignant piece as always! I have been thinking about the reflective element of my own personal learning so your post really hit home. Too often we are eyes forward, moving at high speed and not often enough do we take the time to look back at our path and celebrate the highs and lows of the journey. Our collaboration was part of a really significant learning growth for us both and most excitingly the start of many more discussions, encounters and projects.


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Wyre, borough (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It borders the Irish Sea north and east of the resort city of Blackpool. Poulton-le-Fylde, bordering Blackpool, is the borough's administrative centre.
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The borough, named for the River Wyre, which crosses and drains it, is generally a low coastal plain. Formerly occupied by pockets of marshland, much of the plain has been reclaimed and is now intensively cultivated. Extensive sand beaches have formed offshore of the port and resort of Fleetwood at the mouth of the Wyre in the northwest. The eastern limits of the borough extend into the moor uplands of the Pennines, and most of the borough is rural and agricultural.
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Lancashire, administrative, geographic, and historic county in northwestern England. It is bounded to the north by Cumberland and Westmorland (in the present administrative county of Cumbria), to the east by Yorkshire, to the south by Cheshire, and to the west by the Irish Sea. Preston is the county seat.…
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Do you know how to make the most out of your professional connections?
Shareholder protection planning is probably one of only a few number of times when a business owners professional advisers will all come together to advise their respective client. Drawing on many years of experience, being active in this area of advice will not only deliver desirable outcomes for the shareholders and their families, it will help you build professional connections with IFAs, Accountants, and Solicitors.
So, does Shareholder protection, as the name suggests, only look after the interests of the shareholders of a business? In reality, this type of protection and succession planning protects a multitude of different parties' interests from shareholders, their dependents, to employees of the business and their families.
Firstly, it protects the shareholders. It ensures the affected shareholder (on death or suffering a serious illness) receives a fair payment for their shares, and the remaining shareholders have the option and funds to purchase the shares. This avoids the affected shareholder's family having to be involved in the future running of the business, which the remaining shareholders usually prefer.
Secondly, it protects the shareholders families as they benefit from the market value of the shareholding or a specified cash payment rather than be at the mercy of the remaining shareholder's offer. Furthermore, they do not need to be involved in a business that they may have no experience of running.
Thirdly, it protects the employees by ensuring continuality of the business with the remaining owners and management structure. There should be no need to raise debt and put extra strain on the business and thus avoids the need for the business to be sold, whereby jobs could be at risk.
Finally, it protects the business and means that the business does not need to be sold on the market to competitors, or when the business is vulnerable in terms of negotiation for a low value, or for asset stripping purposes.
What is needed and Why?
So we know the benefits from this type of succession planning but what is actually needed and why?
On the death of a shareholder, shares generally pass to spouse or other beneficiaries via their will and so as a professional adviser you must ensure that your client has an up to date will that reflects their current wishes.
The beneficiaries (of the shares) want cash and the surviving shareholders want the shares and ultimate control of the business. This exchange of shares for cash payment will need to be done legally and so a shareholder agreement must be drawn up by a solicitor. A shareholder agreement should ideally be established with the business from outset, but from experience, many private limited companies are formed and start trading without any consideration to having an agreement or the repercussions of not doing so.
However, the surviving shareholders may not be able to afford to buy the shares, or their bank may be unwilling to lend to the business, and particularly if the deceased shareholder is key person to the business and generating income. As such, a suitable protection policy should be put in place to pay out on death and/or suffering a serious illness such as cancer or heart attack. Otherwise, the beneficiaries may have to sell to a third party and they may not receive full market value.
The different ways of valuing a business.
But how do you value any business and therefore decide on the level of cover needed? This is not a defined science albeit that there are some general guidelines. I find that asking the business owners their opinion is the starting point to gauge their expectations. This provides a good opportunity to discover any existing protection, their own dependents needs, and gauge if any shortfall will happen even with any proposed shareholder protection. Next get their accountant involved to discuss possible valuations, which could be an independent valuation or based on either Price Earnings Ratio, Net Asset Value, or a multiple of net profits. It is important to remember that every business and sector is different and so insurers are prepared to go beyond standard variables with a valid business reason.
Company buyback method whereby the company repurchases the shares from the deceased shareholders. The company insures each shareholder and benefits from the claim proceeds on death or diagnosis of a serious illness. Once the company has repurchased the shares it then cancels them thereby increasing the value of the remaining shareholder's shares proportionately. This is the most complex method and certain conditions must be adhered to.
Life of another method whereby each shareholder takes out a policy on the other shareholder so that they receive the benefit on the death or serious illness of the insured person. This gives the remaining shareholder the funds to purchase the deceased or serious ill shareholder's shares. Due to the nature of this type of arrangement then it only really works for a two shareholder or partner business, and becomes more complex beyond this number of shareholders.
Own policy written in flexible business trust method for the benefit of surviving shareholders, and which offers flexibility on the number of, and without specifying shareholders, both now and in the future.
Each of these routes has different advantages and disadvantages, including minimum time that shares have been owned, complexity, tax reliefs and tax costs, and so it is essential that independent financial advice is sort to advise what method is the most suitable for any respective business now and in the future.
Equally important is the need to involve other business advisers such as Accountants and Solicitors for their profession input, and thereby building an ongoing and mutually beneficial relationship for all.


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Q: getComputedStyle() consistency across browsers I need to get a computed CSS position for an element, but when using auto instead of a number value I get inconsistent results across browsers.
For example, in the demo below when setting bottom: auto;
Chrome and Firefox reports auto, but Edge reports 0px

var el1 = document.querySelector('#one');
el1.innerText = getComputedStyle(el1).bottom;

var el2 = document.querySelector('#two');
el2.innerText = getComputedStyle(el2).bottom;
#one, #two {
  position: sticky;
  padding: 20px;
  color: white;
}

#one {
  bottom: 0px;
  background: red;
}

#two {
  bottom: auto;
  background: blue;
}

Is there some other way to get the actual computed value of auto consistently across browsers?

In the Edge inspector you can see (screenshot below) the actual set value is auto but it shows the computed value as 0px

Screenshots
Chrome 74.0.3729.131

Edge 44.17763.1.0 | EdgeHTML 18.17763

A: There have been recent changes in this area.
Previously, getComputedStyle was returning the Computed Values of an element, now it should return its Resolved Values.
For the bottom property the rules to get this resolved value are:

A resolved value special case property like top
  defined in another specification
    If the property applies to a positioned element and the resolved value of the display property is not 'none' or 'contents', and the property is not over-constrained, then the resolved value is the used value. Otherwise the resolved value is the computed value.

It sounds like your browser treats your elements as a positioned element and thus uses the used value (0px) instead of the computed value (the keyword 'auto' or a computed <length-percentage> value).
I must admit I'm not quite clear as to why all the other browsers don't consider your sticky elements as positioned elements, I would have thought they were also, but they do agree that a relatively positioned element returns the resolve value '0px',

var el1 = document.querySelector('#one');
el1.innerText = getComputedStyle(el1).bottom;

var el2 = document.querySelector('#two');
el2.innerText = getComputedStyle(el2).bottom; // '0px' everywhere
#one, #two {
  position: relative;
  padding: 20px;
  color: white;
}

#one {
  bottom: 0px;
  background: red;
}

#two {
  bottom: auto;
  background: blue;
}

While a non-positioned one returns the computed-value 'auto'.

var el1 = document.querySelector('#one');
el1.innerText = getComputedStyle(el1).bottom;

var el2 = document.querySelector('#two');
el2.innerText = getComputedStyle(el2).bottom; // 'auto' everywhere
#one, #two {
  position: static;
  padding: 20px;
  color: white;
}

#one {
  bottom: 0px;
  background: red;
}

#two {
  bottom: auto;
  background: blue;
}

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to get consistent values across browsers that did implement these changes, the ones that didn't, and Edge, unless if you can avoid positioning your elements, then you should get 'auto' everywhere.

A: I've tried your code and reprodcued your issue on my side.
You could check from MDN and Can I Use that getComputedStyle() is normally supported by most modern browsers.
From my point of view, the different result of bottom value may be the browsers' self behaviour to show the bottom attribute.
Chrome read the bottom as auto but Edge read it as 0.
I've also test that if I set the width as auto, the result will be the same.
    #two {
        bottom: auto;
        background: blue;
        width:auto;
    }

el2.innerText = getComputedStyle(el2).width;


How many wild horses should the Ochocos hold?
Even in the dappled light of a November morning in the Ochoco National Forest, the wild horses roaming among the trees are easy to spot. About a dozen adult horses, ranging in color from light brown to almost black, grazed in a clearing while a 3-month-old foal leapt around behind them, not far from the charred remnants of a recent wildfire.
The horses are a portion of the roughly 130 horses living within the Big Summit Wild Horse Territory, a 27,300-acre range near the western edge of the Ochoco National Forest.
The Big Summit territory, the only one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest that's entirely within a national forest, has been governed by the same management plan since 1975.
However, it remains to be seen if the new plan will keep the current population threshold — which gives the Forest Service more ability to manage resource impacts from horses on the landscape — or increase the number of horses allowed in the forest, a move wild horse advocates have wanted for years as a way of increasing genetic diversity.
Everyone agrees wild horses have lived outside Prineville for decades, although there's disagreement over whether they predate European-American settlement entirely.
Kate Beardsley, founder of Mustangs to the Rescue, a volunteer-based nonprofit that rescues abandoned horses, said the horses in the area are genetically distinct from other wild horses in the area, and tend to be smaller, stronger and calmer than many mustangs.
Gayle Hunt, founder and president of the nonprofit Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition, said the horses have been there for centuries, and may be related to those brought to Spain before the West was settled.
The Forest Service disagrees, saying the horse population most likely came from escaped and unclaimed horses that ended up in the forest after ranching came to Central Oregon.
Steve Gibson, range and wild horse program manager for the Ochoco National Forest, said old Crook County ranchers have stories about going up to the forest and capturing wild horses to train or sell.
"Catching horses back then wasn't an easy thing, you definitely earned the money that you garnered off of it," Gibson said.
That all changed after Congress passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act in 1971. The act made it a crime to harass or kill horses on federal land and directed federal agencies, including the Forest Service, to protect the animals.
The Ochoco National Forest finalized a management plan in compliance with the law four years later. The plan established a population of 55 to 65 horses as a management objective.
Until 2011, the Forest Service maintained an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management that allowed Ochoco National Forest staff to trap horses that exceeded that population threshold, and take them to horse auctions or a BLM facility in Burns. Once that agreement evaporated, the Ochoco population began to grow unchecked.
Tory Kurtz, rangeland management specialist for the national forest, said the Forest Service works with the Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition to find homes for individual horses, but it hasn't stopped the population from increasing. The most recent canvass counted at least 132 horses living in the forest, and other surveys have revealed up to 155 animals.
"We kind of got stuck with not having a place to take the horses," Turner said.
As the horse population has grown, so has its impact on the landscape.
Kurtz said horses have trampled vegetation and caused stream banks to erode, effects that have become more common as the horse population has increased. Gibson said the population growth has forced bands of horses to congregate in new parts of their territory, areas where they may have only visited in the past.
Douthit Springs, near the western edge of the horses' territory, is one such area. Gibson said the area saw dozens of horses each day for months this year, as bands of horses traveled down from higher elevation areas during the winter and didn't return due to population pressure. Consequently, the once-healthy riparian area looked more like a mud puddle, surrounded by hoof prints.
The impacts extend to ranchers using the area as well. Gordon Clark, owner of Hay Creek Ranch in Jefferson County, used to graze around 2,000 ewes within the horse territory, but encountered degraded streams and bare ground.
"It looks like a parking area," Clark said.
Beardsley countered by saying many animals use the riparian areas, and it's difficult to pin all of the impact on horses.
"I'm not going to say that horses don't ever impact everything, but there's no evidence that they impact resources more than cows and sheep," she said.
Hunt added the horses can even open up micro-ecosystems by digging up streams, exposing nutrients that may not otherwise have been exposed.
"The horses have done that, but they're never going to get any credit for it," Hunt said.
Another challenge is the increasing number of altercations between horses and humans.
Turner said the number of visitors to the national forest has risen annually by 5 percent in recent years, driven by population growth throughout Central Oregon and a growing awareness of the forest as an area to hunt, hike and ride all-terrain vehicles.
"I don't see it slowing down any time soon," Turner said.
The uptick increases the number of incidents between humans and horses. Gibson said wild horses have been hit by trucks on icy roads, and several horses were illegally shot several years ago by poachers. Jill Welborn, acting public affairs officer for the national forest, said because the horses are more familiar than other wild animals, people may feel more comfortable around them than they should.
"This isn't a zoo, but I think sometimes that's people's experience of it," she said.
Despite the challenges, Hunt and Beardsley described seeing the horses in the forest as a unique experience, one that's at risk from the herd's dangerous lack of genetic variability. For both women, raising the appropriate management level — the number of horses allowed in the forest — to a level that allows less inbreeding is the most important aspect of any new management plan.
Kurtz acknowledged the herd currently has problems with genetic variability, though there's disagreement about whether that's due to the size of the population or its composition.
Clark and Beardsley consider 150 breeding animals to be the bare minimum to sustain a healthy population of horses. However, Kurtz said the Forest Service believes it can manage horse populations at a lower level by bringing in outside horses, a tactic forest managers have used in the past by bringing in horses from the Bureau of Land Management's Steens Herd Management Area.
Still, Beardsley noted the approach has seen mixed results, and comes perilously close to violating a Forest Service rule that prohibits the agency from selecting for certain traits in animals.
"There are some things that have to be left for the horses," Beardsley said.
After years of pressure from advocates, Kurtz said the Forest Service began looking more seriously at revising the 43-year-old management plan in 2015. For the first time, following public meetings, the agency released a scoping letter last year that contained three potential courses of action: do nothing, raise the permitted number of horses to between 150 and 200 animals, or develop a new target population total based on limiting factors like genetics and winter range.
Clark, of Hay Creek Ranch, remained skeptical the Forest Service would make the sweeping changes necessary to better manage the horse population. His preference would be for the agency to maintain a population of between 55 and 65, while improving genetic testing and better accounting for the cost of finding homes for wild horses.
Despite her frustration with working with the Forest Service, Hunt praised the new management of the Ochocos for being open to new ideas. Beardsley said she doesn't want to see 400 horses, as some critics have suggested, but rather a genetically viable population, along with recognition that the horses deserve priority within their range.
"We've got something very unique with these horses, and that's what we should be focusing on," Hunt added.
The agency is expect to release an environmental impact statement early next year, which will be followed by another comment period, and a final decision by next fall.
"It's just a whole conglomerate of things that we have to balance," Turner said.


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Toponyme:
 Dessau-Roßlau, kreisfreie Stadt in Sachsen-Anhalt
 Dessau (Arendsee), Ortsteil der Stadt Arendsee, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt
 Dessau (Burggen), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Burggen, Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau, Bayern
 Dessau (Texas), eine Stadt in Texas
 Neu Dessau, Ortsteil der Gemeinde Milower Land, Landkreis Havelland, Brandenburg

Personen:
 Adalbert Dessau (1928–1984), deutscher Lateinamerikanist, Romanist und Literaturwissenschaftler
 Anne Dessau (* 1934), deutsche Schauspielerin und Autorin
 Bernardo Dessau (1863–1949), italienischer Physiker deutscher Herkunft
 Bernhard Dessau (1861–1923), deutscher Musiker
 Gabor Dessau (1907–1983), italienischer Geologe
 Hermann Dessau (1856–1931), deutscher Althistoriker und Epigraphiker
 Linda Dessau (* 1953), australische Juristin und Gouverneurin von Victoria
 Paul Dessau (1894–1979), deutscher Komponist und Dirigent

außerdem:
 ein Frachtschiff aus den 1930er Jahren, siehe Dessau (Schiff)

Siehe auch:
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