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What are Obama's gun control proposals?
By Lucy Madison, Major Garrett
January 16, 2013 / 6:00 AM / CBS News
President Obama will formally announce his proposals today for reducing gun violence in America, setting the stage for what may well be a protracted congressional fight over tightening up gun control -- one of the most politically contentious issues in Washington.
While the president reportedly plans to implement a list of 19 executive orders - laws that can be changed without congressional action, including some that are related to data collection on firearms in the hands of criminals and overall gun violence - there are a few ideas that he needs to work with Congress on that he and Vice President Joe Biden have already discussed in public.
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Here's a rundown of some of the proposals Mr. Obama is expected to outline, and what they would do:
Assault weapons ban
Congress passed the original assault weapons ban in 1994, thus imposing a 10-year ban on 19 types of military-style assault weapons, including semi-automatic rifles and pistols like AK-47s and Uzis. But the provision, which was originally authored by then-Sen. Biden, languished in Congress when it was up for reauthorization, and subsequent efforts to reinstate it have fallen short. Mr. Obama has long supported reinstating the ban, but his current efforts mark the first time in his presidency that he's made a hard legislative push to get the law back in the books. According to White House sources, Mr. Obama's weapons ban will be tougher than the one that expired in 2004 is closely aligned with the legislation being drafted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., though even some Democrats - including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. - are skeptical such a law can make its way through Congress in the face of strong opposition from the National Rifle Association.
Ban on high-capacity magazines
One issue that has surfaced in the wake of recent mass shootings is the legality of high-capacity ammunition magazines, which can enable a shooter to fire off dozens of rounds of ammunition without having to reload. The prevalence of these kinds of clips in recent shootings -- including this summer's movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., as well as the recent massacre in Newtown, Conn. -- has led to a chorus of cries that they be banned. CBS News has learned the White House will push for magazines to be capped at 10 bullets per.
In meetings with stakeholders about reducing gun violence last week, Biden stressed what he called a "surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks" for gun owners across the nation. Now, the idea of universal criminal and mental health background checks for all firearms sales is emerging as the central priority in the president's campaign. Currently, criminal background checks are required only for guns sold through licensed firearm dealers, which according to the Campaign to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) account for only 60 percent of gun sales in the United States. One loophole also allows those not "engaged in the business" of gun selling to peddle firearms without a license or without filing any paperwork -- which means that, according to the CSGV, only three of every five guns are sold in conjunction with background checks. Today, Mr. Obama will urge lawmakers to help shore up those loopholes.
Federal funds for national background checks
Obama will also call for increased federal funds to improve the national background check system for gun purchases. That would mean money for more personnel to answer phones when background checks are made, more agents to inspect licensed firearms dealers, and to fully fund promises made in legislation passed after the Virginia Tech massacre, which gives states money to collect and document mental health data in the national background check database.
Research on gun violence
In addition to his proposals for directly legislating access to guns and ammunition, Mr. Obama is has suggested he'll make a push for expanding the research opportunities on gun violence. On Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who founded Mayors Against Illegal Drugs, released a scathing report on how the gun lobby has facilitated a decrease in federal funding for the research and prevention of gun violence. For instance, the report says the Center for Disease Control's budget on firearm injury prevention has decreased by 96 percent in the past two decades, and that the Justice Department -- which funded 32 studies on gun violence in the early 1990s -- has funded no studies on gun violence in the past four years. Biden suggested last week that the White House is looking to change that trend.
The Department of Health and Human Services later this year will issue a rule to implement the Mental Health Parity Act, which equalizes mental health services and access with other "traditional" forms of medical care. This is to expand the coverage and availability of mental health services to vulnerable populations. Also, the president will call for more training for mental health professionals and school counselors and may provide some federal funds for this goal. He will also seek better mental health training for first responders so they might detect mental health problems or warning signs.
On the school safety front, Mr. Obama will use this package to push for stronger anti-bullying efforts by beefing up training for teachers, counselors and principals to detect bullying, combat it at the source and provide mental health resources to the perpetrators and victims. The president will also push for federal funds for more school counselors and mental health aides and for schools and school districts that want to hire armed and trained security officers.
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Lucy Madison is a political reporter for CBSNews.com.
First published on January 16, 2013 / 6:00 AM


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Add Fuel Completes the Infante Santo Avenue Azulejo Route, Lisbon 2017
Add Fuel was invited by Estrela Town Hall in Lisbon to complete the prestigious Infante Santo Avenue Azulejo Route. Walk along the Azulejo Route, and as its name suggests, you will find a series of large decorative murals covered in the traditional Portuguese tile. The walls, with frontal staircases, link five large housing blocks on the Infante Santo Avenue. They were decorated in 1959 following a renewed interest in architectural tiles.
Infante Santo Avenue By Manuelvbotelho (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The renowned Portuguese artists invited to decorate the four staircase panels (1959) were Maria Keil, Carlos Botelho, Júlio Pomar and Alice Jorge, and Sá Nogueira, all artwork linked by the Portuguese culture and the relationship with the sea. The tile route extended in 1994 with artist Eduardo Nery decorating an extra stairway added onto the original development, and also in 2001 where he brought a tile rainbow to the underpass system.
Maria Keil By Manuelvbotelho (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Julio Pomar and Alice Jorge By Manuelvbotelho (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Eduardo Nery By Sharon Hahn Darlin [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Sá Nogueira By Manuelvbotelho (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Carlos Botelho By Manuelvbotelho (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
There was one stairway left untouched and Estrela Town Hall, partnered with National Azulejo Museum, to invite urban artist Diogo Machado, aka Add Fuel to finally complete the Infante Santo Avenue Azulejo Route.
Add Fuel, Louvor da Vivacidade, Lisbon 2017. Photo Credit Ana Pires
Add Fuel is known for reinterpreting the Azulejo tile and selected key patterns and compositions from the street's existing Azulejos, as an homage to the previous Portugese masters before him.
Add Fuel, Louvor da Vivacidade, Lisbon 2017. Photo Credit Hugo Moura
Add Fuel pays homage to Maria Keil, one of the most important Portuguese artists of the 20th century. Her panel 'O Mar' (The Sea) with its flickering diagonals can been seen as an influence in Add Fuels mural, also sharing similar composition with the panel of Carlos Botelho, and the orange shadow reflecting irregular wall of Eduardo Nery.
Sa Nogueira's panel is more conventional and illustrative, you can see ropes and waves that Add Fuel has incorpricated into his designs, and the clean irregular bands like Júlio Pomar and Alice Jorge's mural.
"Within this controlled chaos, I created a dynamic composition, with elements based on Estrela neighbourhood's history; a place of long forgotten fishermen with a deep connection to the sea. I believe these elements will work out to have the necessary strength this tribute deserves." Add Fuel
This huge 200 sqm project, curated by Mistaker Maker, was possible due to the partnership created with Portuguese ceramic company Revigés, with 40 years of activity.
The Azulejo Route is now finished, and Infante Santo Avenue finally has the six staircases decorated with Azulejo tiles spanning over the years, contributing to the beautification of one of the busiest avenues in Lisbon.
The mural is called "Louvor da Vivacidade/ Praise to a Living City".
The Azulejo tile has been an important medium for Portuguese artistic expression for more than five hundred years, and its life line continues with artist Add Fuel who cleverly reinterprets the Azulejo for the 21st Century.

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Girl believed to be tiniest newborn weighed as much as apple
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl...
Border clash was at least 2nd use of tear gas since November
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TIJUANA, Mexico>> Just after people raised their glasses to ring in the New Year, about 150 migrants gathered at a section of border wall in Tijuana to try to cross...
Migrants set out on arduous 60-mile journey to next stop
PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico>> Increasingly sick and facing a punishing 60-mile (100 kilometer) trek, members of the migrant caravan began leaving the southern Mexico city of Pijijiapan on Friday and walking in...
Elderly couples in wildfires' path died in each other's arms
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'I am transgender': A US soldier shares personal journey
BERATZHAUSEN, Germany (AP) - The U.S. Army soldier took a deep breath before hitting the button that sent the email to more than 200 fellow troops. "All considered, I am,...
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Hearing set for "As I Lay Dying" frontman, accused of hiring hitman
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California wildfire spreads, threatening hundreds of homes
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CABAZON, Calif. (AP) -- Susana Medrano stood in her front yard, mesmerized by the orange and red flames creeping along the wind-swept mountain ridge behind her home, and struggled to...
Powerball jackpot grows to $600 million, second-largest ever
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MEPS-IC State-Level ESI Trends, 2013-2014
Employer Health Insurance Mostly Stable in First Year Post-ACA, but Some States Show Increased Take-up, Decreased Offer
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently released its first state estimates of post-ACA employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC). In this blog, we examine 2014 state estimates of ESI offer, eligibility and take-up, showing changes since 2013 that are statistically significant at the 95 percent confidence level.
While national data show statistically significant changes in worker offer, eligibility, take-up and total average premiums between 2013 and 2014, there were not significant changes in most states. However, those states that did see statistically significant changes largely mirrored the national trends. The following are highlights from the new data.
Ten states saw increases in workers opting to enroll in health insurance (Figure 1).
Consistent with the national trend, 10 states experienced significant increases in the percentage of workers choosing to enroll in health insurance (known as coverage "take-up") when their employers offered it to them, while only Maine experienced a significant decline in take-up. The national-level increase in take-up is a change from the decline in take-up that had occurred for more than a decade.
Note: Estimates represent enrollment in health insurance by workers eligible for coverage, if their employers offer employer coverage.
Four states experienced decreases in the percent of workers eligible for employer-based coverage (Figure 2).
Four states experienced significant declines in the percentage of workers eligible for health insurance in businesses that offer coverage, while none saw significant increases. The decline in these four states is consistent with a national decline in eligibility from 2013 to 2014. The national-level decline is a change from the previous two years, during which national levels were statistically stable.
Note: Estimates represent eligibility for health insurance, if their employers offer coverage.
Nine states saw premium increases for single coverage, and 11 saw increases in family coverage (Figure 3).
Nationally, average annual premiums increased significantly for both single and family coverage, a trend also found in several states. Average annual premiums for single coverage increased significantly in nine states, ranging from 6.5 percent in Texas to 12.5 percent in Kentucky. Premiums for family coverage also increased significantly in 11 states, ranging from 5.7 percent in Texas to 11.0 percent in Washington. Nationally, premiums increased 4.7 percent for single coverage and 3.9 percent for family coverage.
Seven states experienced decreases in the percent of workers employed in businesses that offered coverage (Figure 4).
The percentage of workers in businesses that offered coverage decreased significantly between 2013 and 2014 in seven states, and it increased in one state (Colorado) from 80.9% to 84.7%. This is consistent with national trend, in which the percentage of workers employed in firms offering coverage has declined for the past several years, including from 2013 to 2014.
Further Reading: AHRQ Chartbook with Longer-Term ESI Trends since 2003
In addition to releasing 2014 MEPS-IC state estimates, AHRQ also has published a chartbook that looks at longer-term trends in ESI since 2003, including offer, eligibility and take-up; premiums, with employer and employee contributions; and cost sharing. The chartbook is available here.


You have made multiple applications for completely different jobs. This shows that you have not taken the time to properly consider the job specifications and you can be perceived as not serious and wasting the recruiter's time.
You have applied for a job that is not suited to your field. Once again, this demonstrates a lack of care when reviewing the specification and the recruiter may show little interest in getting back to you.
Your recruiter is incompetent or disorganized. There are many recruiters across many disciplines and standards of service vary greatly. It could just be that your consultant is not up to the job. If this is the case, you should consider contacting another recruiter.
There is no feedback from the employer. Often when the recruiter has no feedback from his/her client, he/she will offer no response to the candidate. Of course, out of professional courtesy, it is the recruiter's responsibility to keep the candidate updated on their progress regarding an employment opportunity.
The recruiter has received 100's of applications and has been unable to effectively field the response. Sometimes if the recruiter has been inundated with applications for a position he/she may find it difficult to respond to each application. Most recruiters are strongly motivated by their management to make placements and unfortunately this can mean that responding to every candidate who applied for a position can fall down their list of priorities.
While you may feel your skills are transferable they are, in fact, not! Candidates will often claim that their skills are transferable from one sector to another which of course can be true. However, it is more common for clients to request CVs from candidates who have experience in their same industry sector. So if you are pushing a recruiter for progress in this regard – you may not get much success.


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The Mondrian Collection, new at Connemara Blue
inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian 1872-1944
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan (after 1906 he signed his work spelled 'Mondrian') was a Dutch pioneer of abstract art. His paintings developed from early landscape pictures to geometric abstract works.
Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, Utrecht and studied painting at the Amsterdam Academy 1892-4, and again in 1896-7. His friendship with the painter, Simon Mans led to painted landscapes in the Hague School tradition. Mondrian then began to work in a more vividly coloured and sometimes pointillist style in 1908. He lived in Paris from 1912 to 1914, where was influenced by Cubism.
Mondrian returned to Holland in 1914 and gradually evolved a more simplified abstract style which he called Neo-Plasticism. Mondrian restricted his painting to the three primary colours and to a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines on a white ground - the style that has inspired this, our new 'Mondrian Collection'
From 1919-38 he lived in Paris, and there Mondrian joined the group Abstraction-Création in 1931. Mondrian moved to London in 1938, then to New York in 1940, where he started to develop a more colourful style. He died in New York in 1944 at the age of 72.
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Observe yeast. Dissolve some of it in water and then make a wet mount. Use only a small amount of yeast and make sure that the yeast is fully suspended and free of clumps.
Or take some fungi from fresh cheese. Scratch some material off and dissolve in water to make a wet mount. Unlike yeast, many cheese types contain filamentous fungi.
Alternatively you might want to take an edible mushroom and knock out some spores. place the cap of the fungus on paper and knock on the fungus to release the spores. Suspend in water to make a wet mount.


NOTE: Monopoly and Yahtzee are NOT available via DS Download Play.
3. Tap the screen when the "Touch the Touch Screen to Begin" message appears.
4. Once the game begins there will be NO SOUND WHATSOEVER coming from the guests' DS systems.
1. Tap on the "Boggle" logo.
3. Tap on "New MP Game".
4. Tap on "Single-Card Play".
5. For a classic-style Boggle game, tap "Classic".
5a. The guest(s) will power on their Nintendo DS system.
5b. The guest(s) tap on the "Warning" screen and then on the "DS Download Play" button.
5c. When the graphic bar appears saying "Boggle", the guests tap on it.
5d. The guests' DS systems will ask "Would you like to download this software? Tap "Yes".
5e. When the host's upper screen says that the number of uploads complete equals the number of guests, press the "A" button.
5f. The guest(s) should make sure the host's system name is highlighted on their lower screen and then press the "A" button.
5g. Once the host sees the names of all of the guests on their lower screen, they press the "A" button twice.
6. For a Time Attack Boggle game, tap "Time Attack".
6a. Select the game length (1-5 minutes) by using the stylus or the direction pad and then press the "A" button".
6b. The guest(s) will power on their Nintendo DS system.
6c. The guest(s) tap on the "Warning" screen and then on the "DS Download Play" button.
6d. When the graphic bar appears saying "Boggle", the guests tap on it.
6e. The guests' DS systems will ask "Would you like to download this software? Tap "Yes".
6f. When the host's upper screen says that the number of uploads complete equals the number of guests, press the "A" button.
6g. The guest(s) should make sure the host's system name is highlighted on their lower screen and then press the "A" button.
6h. Once the host sees the names of all of the guests on their lower screen, they press the "A" button twice.
6i. The host then uses their stylus to shake up the letter cube to begin the game.
1. Tap on the "Battleship" logo.
5. The guest(s) will power on their Nintendo DS system.
6. The guest(s) tap on the "Warning" screen and then on the "DS Download Play" button.
7. When the graphic bar appears saying "Boggle", the guests tap on it.
8. The guests' DS systems will ask "Would you like to download this software? Tap "Yes".
9. When the host's upper screen says that the number of uploads complete equals the number of guests, press the "A" button.
10. The guest(s) should make sure the host's system name is highlighted on their lower screen and then press the "A" button twice.
11. Once the host sees the names of all of the guests on their lower screen, they press the "A" button again.
2a. When choosing the hidden locations of your ships, simply drage the ship from the right and drop it onto the grid or use the direction pad.
2b. To rotate the ship, tap the wheel in the lower right corner with the stylus or use the L button and R button.
2c. To anchor the ship (permanently place it), tap the ship you want to place next or press the "A" button.
2d. To deploy the fleet once the final ship is anchored, tap the word "Deploy" at the bottom of the screen or press the "A" button.
1. When making a word, you can connect letters the are to the beside, above, below, or diagonal from the previous letter.
2. The game will not allow you to accidentally make the same word twice.
3. Once time runs out, each player will be asked to approve or reject any unrecognized word.
3a. You will be asked to approve your own unrecognized words as well as your opponents' unrecognized words.
3b. If an unrecognized word is approved by both players, it will be allowed, but only for that one game.
4. Guests can press the "A" button to skip through the credits.
5. After each game is completed, the guest will need to power off their Nintendo DS, power it back up, and re-download.
1. Once both players have deployed their ships, the shooting begins with the host taking the first shot.
2. The upper screen will show your deployment and the lower screen will display where you've fired and whether or not you hit.
3. To target, either tap on the spot on the lower screen you want to shoot at or use the direction pad.
4. Once you've selected the spot you'd like to fire at, either tap the already-selected spot or press the "A button".
5. Guests can press the "A" button to skip through the credits.
6. After each game is completed, the guest will need to power off their Nintendo DS, power it back up, and re-download.
2a. Because you and your opponent are in different oceans, your opponent's ships can be in the same spot as yours.
2b. Because you and your opponent are in different oceans, shooting at a spot where your ships are located won't affect your ships.
1a. Find as many real (and mutually accepted) words as you can in the time allotted.
2a. Sink your opponent's ships before they can sink yours.
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The Public Health Dental Program leads the efforts to improve and maintain the oral health of its citizens by promoting and developing quality, cost-effective community and school-based preventive, educational and treatment programs which emphasize elimination of oral health disparities.
The Department of public health dentistry of Kamineni institute of dental sciences is continuously looking for new and innovative ways to deliver dental health education, clinical and preventive services to all the people, particularly to the citizens of nalgonda district. The ultimate goal of the department is to reduce the dental health disparities and improve the general and dental health of the people of our country.
There s a saying that claims "Health care is vital to all of us and public health is vital to us all the time". While private practise dentistry may be more prominent and gets much of the priority, public health practise is a speciality of dentistry that tends to go unnoticed and is not very well understood. Public health dentists play a large and an essential role in the health and safety of its people.
Public health dentistry complements private practise by providing services to the disadvantaged populations that are unable to access services from traditional private practices.


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Transforming Growth Factor-β1 (TGF-β1) Driven Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) is Accentuated by Tumour Necrosis Factor α (TNFα) via Crosstalk Between the SMAD and NF-κB Pathways
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Lee Borthwick, Dr Aaron Gardner, Professor Anthony De Soyza, Professor Derek Mann, Professor Andrew Fisher
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Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which an epithelial cell alters its phenotype to that of a mesenchymal cell and plays a critical role in embryonic development, tumour invasion and metastasis and tissue fibrosis. Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) continues to be regarded as the key growth factor involved in driving EMT however recently tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) has been demonstrated to accentuate TGF-beta1 driven EMT. In this study we investigate how various signalling pathways contribute to this accentuated effect. A549 cells were treated with TGF-beta1 (10ng/ml), TNFalpha (20ng/ml) or a combination of both for 72h and EMT assessed. The effect of selective inhibition of the SMAD, MAPK and NF-kappaB pathways on EMT was assessed. A549 cells treated with TGF-beta1 downregulate the expression of epithelial markers, increase the expression of mesenchymal markers, secrete matrix-metalloproteinases and become invasive. Significantly, TGF-beta1 driven EMT is accentuated by co-treatment with TNFalpha. SMAD 3 inhibition attenuated TGF-beta1 driven EMT but has no effect on the accentuation effect of TNFalpha. However, inhibiting IKKbeta blocked both TGF-beta1 driven EMT and the accentuating action of TNFalpha. Inhibiting p38 and ERK signalling had no effect on EMT. TNFalpha accentuates TGF-beta1 driven EMT in A549 cells via a SMAD 2/3 independent mechanism involving the NF-kappaB pathway independent of p38 and ERK 1/2 activation.
Author(s): Borthwick LA, Gardner A, De-Soyza A, Mann DA, Fisher AJ
Journal: Cancer Microenvironment
ISSN (electronic): 1875-2284
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12307-011-0080-9


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Councils unco-operative over Wales smoking ban
By Gareth Iacobucci
03-Apr-2007 - Last updated on 28-Aug-2011 at 05:18 GMT
Related tags: Smoking ban, Wales, Cardiff
Planning authorities in Wales have been un-cooperative in helping pubs prepare for the smoking ban, licensees have told thepublican.com. The...
Planning authorities in Wales have been un-cooperative in helping pubs prepare for the smoking ban, licensees have told thepublican.com.
The legislation, which came into force on April 2, has been introduced three months ahead of the English ban, and licensees say they needed more time and guidance to prepare their outdoor smoking areas.
Patrick Davies, 27, licensee of the Queen¹s Vaults in Cardiff city centre, said he felt let down by the local authority.
"The council has been very un-co-operative,² he said.
"I phoned up and asked for advice on having bins fitted, but they gave me no guidance on what sort of bins. Nobody had the foresight to make a decision and stick to it."
Richard Graham, manager of the Great Western, also in Cardiff, said: "We were given sufficient warning (about the ban), but the council didn¹t set the legislation in stone until January, which was not far enough in advance.
"I sit on the Cardiff licensees' forum, and I have spoken to some who have suffered a real headache with planning delays.
"I think the authorities have been bogged down with applications."
Speaking at the launch of the ban at the National Assembly for Wales, First Minister Rhodri Morgan described it as "a historic day for Wales, and for the future health of the people".
He added: "This is the single most important public health measure that the assembly has introduced.
"Second-hand smoke in public places is estimated to cause 400 premature deaths a year. This is an unacceptable toll."
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Deployment highlights IMPACT platform momentum in Latin America markets
Nokia IMPACT Connected Device Platform (CDP) Entitlement Server drives efficient management of selected smartwatch models
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that Movistar Chile, Telefónica's affiliate in Chile, has deployed Nokia IMPACT CDP Entitlement Server software in order to offer more advanced services for selected smartwatch models and to more efficiently manage those services.
The deployment makes Movistar Chile the first operator in the country to offer services for advanced smartwatches with cellular capabilities, without being connected to a smartphone companion device.
Utilizing embedded-SIM (eSIM) technology, the solution allows Movistar to increase its capabilities to support new smartwatches and wearables with advanced features, including monitoring cardiac activity, as well as basic functions, such as messaging, calling and emailing without requiring users to carry a smartphone.
According to Analysys Mason, IMPACT, or Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things, is the leading device management solution globally based on market share.
The IMPACT platform enables automated zero-touch activation and oversees the complete lifecycle, allowing remote management of networks and IoT devices. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased demand for the kind of remote network management features that IMPACT CDP provides.
Movistar Chile is the latest company to benefit from IMPACT CDP Entitlement Server, with momentum in other Latin America markets, including other Telefónica affiliates in the region and in Europe, along with various companies in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe.
Antonio Bueno Figueroa, CTO, Movistar Chile, said: "Nokia's IMPACT Connected Device Platform brings important features to Movistar's networks, allowing us to reach a key milestone for our company and to begin offering innovative smartwatches and wearables with advanced features to our customers."
Bhaskar Gorti, President of Nokia Software and Nokia Chief Digital Officer, said: "We are proud to collaborate with Movistar with IMPACT. This solution enables the delivery of advanced smartwatch features to Chilean customers – regardless of a smartphone connection – for the very first time, and provides zero-touch network management capabilities that give Movistar new operational efficiencies."
Webpage: IMPACT device manager


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History of Ballet and Dance
Dance is an important part of our cultural heritage.The illustrated course looks at how dance developed over key periods of its history from the 17th Century court of Louis XIV to the present day including: the first professional dancers; the 'Romantic' ballet period and its subsequent decline; the patronage of the Czars and the great Tchaikovsky classic, Swan Lake. It will explain how new dance styles and themes developed in the early 20th Century through the Diaghilev Ballet Russes and how artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse brought innovation to stage design and costume. We conclude by choosing a selection of works by contemporary choreographers. We assess their artistic collaborations and the contribution they have made to the rich diversity of dance as a performance art and its ever-growing popularity with audiences today.
The course will provide an introduction to the history of ballet and dance from its roots in the 17th Century court of Louis XIV with a view to gaining an appreciation of the diverse and virtuoso world of dance as a performance art today.
The course is both visual and descriptive and suitable for anyone with an interest in dance who would like to know more about its history and development.
Recognise the significance of dance as an important part of our cultural heritage through key periods of its history.
Appraise the effects of cultural changes in Europe that led to Czarist Russian becoming a centre for dance innovation in the 19th Century.
Assess the influence that Diaghilev's Ballet Russes made to dance as a performance art in the eary 20th Century.
Recognise the work of a selection of contemporary choreographers who have contributed to the popularity of dance as a performance art today.
You may be asked to review a dance performance you have seen in the theatre, online, on film or TV.
You will be encouraged to read reviews about dance performances e.g., newspaper or online reviews and to share these with the group.
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There's nothing better than a snow-loving dog to make winter a whole lot more enjoyable. While not every breed loves the cold — and some may need a coat and/or booties to stay warm — the puppers in these pics are having no trouble with the chilly winter weather.
Just because you're small(ish) doesn't mean you can't enjoy the snow.
Fluffy snow, meet snowy floof.
Snow is fun, but snow with a purple toy and a buddy is even better.
Who cares if there isn't a whole lot of snow when there's a STICK.
Because little dogs need a little extra warmth.
Never mind Dumbo. Spaniels have the real high-flying ears.
Snow? What snow? I just want to PLAY.
The weather's always perfect for playing fetch.
...something's not quite right here.
Why just run when you can run with your tongue?
Once a digger, always a digger.
Because sometimes a little stick just won't do.
Who's a good boy? I'M a good boy!
A tummy rub's a tummy rub, even if it's cold out.
Winter's so much more fun when you've got a pal.
Is there anything better than a smiling doggo?
Some dogs just catch air easier than others.
Have I got something on my face?


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Where have all the faculty gone?
Ubiquity, Volume 2000 Issue July, July 1 - July 31, 2000 | BY UBIQUITY
Why is higher education more popular than ever? Are computer-literate students better programmers? Eric Roberts answers these questions and more in the following interview.
UBIQUITY: For the last six months you've been a visiting professor at Swarthmore. Tell us about that.
ERIC ROBERTS: I have an endowed faculty position. I'm the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Social Change, which is a wonderful job title. The position was established to bring people to Swarthmore College who are interested in all sorts of issues surrounding social change and the effect of various disciplines on society. And usually, it goes to a sociologist or political scientist, or someone like that.
UBIQUITY: Why did they choose you?
ROBERTS: Every now and again, they invite a scientist to look at science and social change and how those issues interrelate. The people who invited me here, Charles Kelemen in particular, have been asking me if I would be interested in doing this for quite some time. In the early '90s, I was president of the organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. From that, I did a lot of work with computing and its social implications. I've also taught at Stanford a course on computing, ethics and social technology since 1992.
UBIQUITY: Do you see the social issues related to information technology right now as reasonably benign? Or is there a state of urgency on particular issues?
ROBERTS: I think there's urgency on a number of issues. I think there are a lot of questions that have come up and have clearly become central policy questions. Not just those of us in the field realize this, but I think there's a lot of interest across the board. The Microsoft case, for example, is an important information technology question that has certainly gotten a lot of press this year. In my course here at Swarthmore, we used that as one of the focus study points that we looked at over the course of the last semester. People were trying to decide what the government should do, were they to have a favorable finding of law, which came out during the course of the semester. So people were anticipating and trying to think about what was going on in the real news events around them. So I think that the question of concentration of monopoly power in the IT industry is a very interesting and pressing one.
UBIQUITY: What are some of the other issues that you are concerned about?
ROBERTS: This whole notion of the digital divide that was described in the Commerce Department report two years ago and updated last year, for one. And then there is the whole nature of e-commerce, what it has meant for the economy and the shakeout that's going on now and the dot-coms. One of the issues that I've been most involved is the question of how the economic forces that surround the IT industry in this time of enormous excitement and great demand for IT professionals will play out in terms of the long-term future health of the information technology economy.
UBIQUITY: How do these economic forces affect academia?
ROBERTS: One of the issues that seems particularly problematic to me is the drain on academic computer scientists. This year, the available evidence suggests that there are only about one-third as many applicants for faculty positions as there are open faculty positions. This is unheard of in academia, where you advertise a job in history or English, and you get 200 applicants for each place. We only have one-third of an applicant for each place, which means that most of the positions will go unfilled; or at least will be filled by people who are not qualified, or who may have moved into those positions from other areas. It's a scary prospect. We had very similar situation in the early 1980s. Peter Denning wrote a well-known piece called "Eating Our Seed Corn," in which he described the process of industry desperate for talent raiding academic institutions to hire not just faculty, but also any students who might have thought about becoming future faculty. The short-term demands of industry indicate that they need to find the people, now, to maintain their competitive edge in this very competitive landscape. Very few students, say, at Stanford where I teach ordinarily, are going on past the Masters Degree to get a Ph.D. and to look at faculty positions, because it's just so exciting and lucrative to be part of the start-up world. I think we're looking to a time when, with enrollments rising in the field, departments are going to have to cut back their offerings because they won't have the necessary faculty.
UBIQUITY: What can be done about the problem?
ROBERTS: It's very hard to come up with solutions, because the economic forces that favor short-term gains by particular actors in the economy work against the long-term collective interest of that economy. So short term usually wins in those situations.
UBIQUITY: What about enrollment at the undergraduate level in computer sciences? Is that still very high?
ROBERTS: It's grown enormously in the past few years. One of the problems is that we don't have good recent data. The Department of Education statistics lag by almost five years in the surveys of how many people are graduating in each of the different fields. So, if you look at the statistics, what you find is this enormous run-up in the early '80s; peaking at about 1986; followed by a decline, which seems to bottom out in '92; and then a small rise past that for the next couple of years. But what the data don't show, because they're not current enough, is that every university has experienced an enormous increase in the last five years in enrollments in computer science courses. For instance, last year at Stanford, we graduated about 100 students with undergraduate degrees in computer science. This year, it was almost 150. So that's a one-year, 50-percent jump.
UBIQUITY: Is that a typical volume increase at other schools?
ROBERTS: I know that a lot of schools are reporting the same kind of increase. The number of students in our courses has doubled in the last four years, and the increase in the faculty size over that same period is only about 10 percent. So everyone is teaching a much larger class. The number of students per faculty member has gone up dramatically in that time, which makes teaching less attractive to educators. And so a number of schools are seeing significant attrition of their existing faculty.
UBIQUITY: You're working on a new curriculum. First, let me ask about the old curriculum. Are students, in your experience, happy with the state of academic computer science education?
ROBERTS: It's hard to know, because the surveys tend to be local; and much of the evidence anecdotal. My sense is that students at Stanford are very happy with the computer science education. We've worked on it very hard. We've taken student ideas into account when designing the curriculum. One of the things that I was hoping to do during the Curriculum 2001 project was bring some of the experience I have had, as Director of Undergraduate Studies at Stanford for the last ten years, to bear on that curriculum.
UBIQUITY: What is the purpose of the Curriculum 2001 project?
ROBERTS: What we're doing is offering curricular guidelines. The report is the next in a series that goes back a long time. The first major report was done in 1968 and was published by the ACM. Curriculum '68 was done shortly after the genesis of computer science as a field -- I mean, the first departments of computer science were formed only in the mid-'60s. An update was published in '78 and then another in 1991 that was done jointly with the IEEE Computer Society. We did some surveys in the early part of the Curriculum 2001 effort to look at the success of Curriculum '91, and found that in many places it had very little impact. It's actually easier to see evidence of the structure from Curriculum '78 in a number of institutions than it is to find Curriculum '91.
UBIQUITY: What's the reason for that?
ROBERTS: The basic problem was that Curriculum '91 was significantly more flexible and less, you could say, prescriptive. It provided less guidance for institutions that were looking for guidance. If you wanted to take essentially a turnkey curriculum and put it into operation, Curriculum '78 was pretty good. It gave sets of courses, and described those courses in some detail, and told faculty what they needed to cover; which also, by the way, made it easier for publishers to publish textbooks around those topics.
UBIQUITY: What was the approach in Curriculum '91?
ROBERTS: In Curriculum '91, there was a shift in focus toward providing a definition of the fundamental core of computer science that all undergraduates should know; done as a set of knowledge units, as they were called. This assemblage of knowledge units had to be manipulated to form courses. In order to provide flexibility, that was left largely to individual institutions. But very few individual institutions have the wherewithal or the time or the expertise, given the shortage of academic computer science talent, to turn those mix-and-match courses into real curricula. So in many cases, people just stuck with what they had. In Curriculum 2001 we're retaining this notion of a definition of a body of knowledge and using a similar structure to Curriculum '91 to categorize the discipline. But we are trying to provide much more guidance in terms of specific courses, and structures, strategies and tactics that individual institutions can adopt.
UBIQUITY: How far would you want to see that level of guidance go? Would you want to see a national curriculum, for example?
ROBERTS: No, I think that the idea is to make these curricular recommendations available, and make them easy to implement for institutions that want to take them as they stand. If an institution wants to modify it, more power to it. But to just say you must create your own curriculum leaves many institutions without the tools that they need to offer anything at all. What we want is something that people can adopt, that will have enough robustness that an institution will be able to adopt it fairly simply. We want to encourage institutions to extend it, to change it, to keep it alive, because computing is changing so rapidly that any static curriculum would almost certainly be out of date upon publication.
UBIQUITY: Right, that level of change is what I was just about to ask you about. Since things are changing now at Internet speed, is there any reason to examine the metaphor that underpins most of education? The metaphor of the course and the curriculum as a sequential process, a path of learning: Is it still a path?
ROBERTS: Well, it's never been exactly a path. There are usually multiple paths through a curriculum; it's not entirely a linear progression. There's a prerequisite structure that is still there. You have to learn to walk before you can run, even in the Internet analogies. I think we'll still see some of that structure. The question that a lot of people bring up is not that of the notion of sequentiality -- you start small and then move on to bigger and bigger tasks. The question is the mode of delivery: Does it make sense to have a lecture course in this time, when we have the Web and all of its enormous reach to provide material to a wide audience?
UBIQUITY: In view of all that, how do you respond to people who say that the Web will replace books and classrooms?
ROBERTS: I think that that's a strange view of what is education. I mean, we've had books since Guttenberg, and if someone wanted to know the material in a course they could pick up the book. It might be a little more static than a Web page, but it's not that different functionally. The institution provides a context for mentorship, so that someone can check how you're doing and encourage you. The notion that education is just about the transfer of knowledge leads to most of these misconceptions. Relatively little of what I do -- teaching the introductory computer science courses at Stanford -- is merely the transfer of knowledge
UBIQUITY: What do you do in the classroom that can't be taught on the Web?
ROBERTS: What I do is model the kind of behaviors that we want, so that people learn good engineering discipline, along with the knowledge to provide incentives and encouragement, and to get people excited about the field. It's much more psychological, and that's why that kind of education is so popular. I have people, even colleagues on my own faculty, who tell me that the university's days are limited. That this is all going to end soon. And I just turn around and say that's why education is more popular than ever before. I mean, we've had the Web for five years and during that time there's been just enormous increase in the popularity of higher education. The trend lines are wrong.
UBIQUITY: So why do some people have a doom-and-gloom scenario about education?
ROBERTS: I think that comes from a very narrow view of what is the function of education. People can take a book, and they can learn it, but they don't. People can take the Internet and learn it, but they don't. The way to get somebody to learn something is to provide them with the context, to provide them with the community in which that learning is validated, where there's the necessary motivation, where there's an excitement surrounding the learning. The Web has a certain level of excitement which, I expect, will wear off before too long. It doesn't have that human contact, which is so necessary to providing the kind of education that I value.
UBIQUITY: I'm curious about whether you've noticed a change in your computer science students over the years? Are they the same kinds of students you used to get, or are they different. Are they all dropping out to become millionaires?
ROBERTS: Well, at Stanford, a lot of them are. And I think that that phenomenon is true other places. Most of them don't drop out of college, although I have some advisees who have done just that. The majority of students leave at the end of their Bachelor's Degree or after they get a coordinated five-year Master's Degree. They don't go on for advanced degrees.
UBIQUITY: Why are students attracted to industry, other than the obvious financial rewards?
ROBERTS: The excitement of going into the start-up world is relatively new, within the last five to seven years. It is very much a pervasive attitude and view among the students that I know today. Even students who come in to a college with a more non-capital-based intellectual excitement about the field tend to be surrounded -- at least in our environment -- in this milieu in which everybody is pushing; not just the sense of making money through a start-up, but the sense of excitement that comes from that kind of a breakneck pace -- just working flat out to get something to exist. It's more of the cultural side of it. People are certainly flocking to that type of company, or that type of opportunity, much more than they did before.
UBIQUITY: Almost all students are computer-literate these days. Do you find they are better prepared for your course in computer programming?
ROBERTS: Students have used computers now for all their lives, and that's probably been true for a decade. I don't see much difference in the students' preparation for the introductory programming course. At Stanford, our introductory programming courses are taken by about 75 percent of the student body. So we have a wide distribution of majors and interest levels. In that cross-section of our undergraduate population, students do no better and no worse in the introductory course today than they did a decade ago, even though they've had more experience using the machine. There are many people who have real cognitive troubles understanding how to do programming. That has been true forever. And again, it's never the sort of thing that those people are going to solve completely on their own. They need to come up against problems that are too hard to solve for them, and fail, and get some guidance and feedback along the way for how they can do better the next time. That seems to be fairly much the same as it's been.
UBIQUITY: What do you think of the increasingly ubiquitous nature of computing; imbedded computing, and so forth. For example, MIT recently announced the Oxygen Project. Essentially, it's a research project devoted to making computers imbedded in everything.
ROBERTS: As prevalent as oxygen.
UBIQUITY: That's exactly right. My question was is what are the consequences of that for education? A frequent analogy that's made is between automobiles and computers . . .
ROBERTS: That millions of people know how to drive a car, but don't know what's going on under the hood.
UBIQUITY: Right.
ROBERTS: That's true today for computing, and it'll always be true for computing. But you need some automotive engineers. And you need much more in the way of software engineering.
UBIQUITY: Do you address this concern in that general course for undergraduates?
ROBERTS: Not exactly. The idea is that people gain something by being exposed to what is under the hood, to continue with the metaphor. There is a lot more intellectual rigor that goes on under that virtual hood that separates the hardware and the software world. I mean, when you look at the problem of writing programs that solve interesting problems, you get all sorts of wonderful intellectual challenges that I think are very liberating for a student mind, in a way that knowing exactly what's going on inside the carburetors and cylinders of the engine may be to some. But I think the course has a much broader application, partly because of the enormous flexibility of software and the fact that you can take those ideas and apply them to a wide range of problems. You're not looking at a single engineering artifact that solves one job, as you would be in the case of the automobile. You're looking at a set of intellectual tools and disciplines that will allow you to solve a wide variety of problems by applying those intellectually challenging ideas in the appropriate ways. And that's what a computer science course offers.
UBIQUITY: What are your thoughts on the future?
ROBERTS: It's clear that we will need more people trained than we have today with the growth of IT, even when it becomes imbedded. I think that's only going to increase the demand for people who are conversant with and talented in the creation of software for all of those different applications. This shortage of trained software people that we see today seems likely only to get worse, because we're going to need more and more people to create the software that runs the computer and the toaster and the shoe and whatever else you have.


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Vanished art of the Consul
Judit Kiraly
First in a series of English on the Riviera, a look at James Charles Harris, British Consul, watercolourist and humanitarian.
Sir James Charles Harris with wife Geraldine outside their villa in Mont Boron, Nice. (Photo: Didier Gayraud) One of the most interesting British characters eminent in 19th century Riviera society was undoubtedly Sir James Charles Harris. Born in 1831 in Genoa, he was a descendant of two resident British families: Bird and Brame. Truly a European, speaking fluent Italian, English, French, Latin and good German, Harris received a classical education that included painting and was educated both in Britain and Italy.
Harris was a notable artist – mainly doing watercolours. Sadly, most of his works have since been disseminated all over the world or disappeared, like the album of watercolours of Nice he offered to Queen Victoria at the end of her stay in Nice. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Beaux Arts of Nice and had exhibited his work in the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He donated shortly before his death an album to Holy Trinity Church. However, the whereabouts of this remains a mystery; as it was neither sold at an auction for charity nor can it be located.
In 1884, Nice became the centre of inventions and technical novelties, during the Nice International Exhibition. In the Royal Collection of Art there is a copy of a sketch Harris made of the Exhibition Pavilion. He sent frequent letters about the Côte d'Azur to various British journals and magazines and waged a private war against The Standard, when it published false cholera reports about Nice.
Harris was named British Consul in 1884. He was a Churchwarden, and a polite gentleman, but he could also lose his composure. He sent a letter to the Prefecture in 1896, in reply to an official request to have a copy of the balance sheets of Holy Trinity, not only refusing to furnish the required documents, but making it clear, that since the British Church draws no subsidies, it is simply not the Prefecture's business how they manage financially. The request was not repeated.
Consul Harris was President of several charitable Societies such as the SPA (Société Protectrice des Animaux) of which he was founding member and President, giving support to the idea of establishing public watering facilities for birds, dogs and donkeys. At the turn of the road, in front of the Chateau de l'Anglais on Mont Boron, we can still see the one financed by Queen Victoria, after Consul Harris mentioned the idea to her.
Pont Vieux, 1861, Private CollectionHarris was also an amateur Urban Planner: He didn't hesitate to criticise, but also made concrete suggestions by publishing a booklet in French Decadence de Nice Comme Station D'hiver – Les Moyens de la Conjurer in which he complained about the elegant society moving to Cannes from Nice. He also complained about the sewers – this was a recurring hygienic problem before the 1890s. The original égouts in Nice was nothing more than a trench in the middle of the road and the fosse was a septic tank, emptied by the peasants who used the contents for fertiliser.
As well, he wrote a historical paper – Monaco: Pieces Historiques et Traites – about the sovereignty of the Monegasque Prince. His real hour of glory came with the successive visits of Queen Victoria from 1895 while he was Consul. In May 1896, when he worked tirelessly to make sure that the visit was perfect in every way, James Charles Harris was amongst the first to receive the Victorian Order, later becoming KCVO for his services.
Harris's fundraising subscription in 1899, after the Toulon disaster, was very favourably received in French political circles and led later to the Entente Cordiale and more specifically to the Fêtes Franco-Anglaises of Nice (1912). Consul Harris was an essential precursor in the improving political relations and developing French-British cooperation that would stand the test of time during the First World War
In 1859 in Suttgart, Harris married Gerhardine von Gall. (She used the French version of her name in Nice: Geraldine.) The marriage was a success except for the tragedy of losing their two year-old boy Monty. Harris suffered from severe asthma, and he died in 1904, in his villa Les Roches on Mont Boron, aged seventy-three. He's buried in the Caucade Cemetary in Nice.
This is an excerpt from Judit Kiraly's yet unpublished book The English Church of a French Resort. In the current issue of Nice Historique (FNAC, Librairie Masséna) you can find two of Judit Kiraly's recent articles on the Croix de Marbre suburb development and Holy Trinity Nice.


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Dolly Parton "Backwoods Barbie" Dolly Records
By CMP on August 26, 2008 in Album Reviews
by Jody Mason
We haven't seen a mainstream record from the legendary Dolly Parton in 17 years, and it seems she has remained true to her classic style after all this time. Backwoods Barbie includes the single "Better Get to Livin'," a characteristically upbeat song that is countrified by Dolly's bluegrass voice singing gospel-style lyrics. "Jesus & Gravity" is another inspirational single that speaks to the struggles of humility, patience, and encouragement, a few of Dolly's distinguished virtues.
One fast-paced song, "Drives Me Crazy", is slightly unsettling as it borrows early 90's beats, but fortunately the album makes its way towards more subdued, breathy ballads such as "Only Dreamin'" and "Cologne". Dolly proves herself ever the country girl with "The Lonesomes," a bluesy song that shows off her jazzy personality.
After spending so many years as an entertainer, Dolly has kept her sense of humor. Even the Backwoods Barbie album cover features a seemingly ageless Dolly wearing a hot pink gown and sitting on hay bales in the back of an old pickup. Her world tour continues to add dates and venues through 2009, with some shows selling out to enthusiastic fans extolling their Backwoods Barbie.
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This morning, the first message I saw on my phone was: '15% discount on all women's items at H&M, to celebrate International Women's Day'. When I opened my mailbox, all kinds of similar invitations to celebrate International Women's Day flooded in. This day is fast becoming an international (and commercial) item on the agenda.
International Women's Day is, I believe, a good thing. That we're paying attention to the fact that women are payed less then men, and that the violence still used against women needs to stop. And that it highlights the fact that we need to pay attention to our own unconscious biases is also undoubtedly good: do we treat our sons differently than we do our daughters?
Marcel and I have three sons and a daughter. And when I look at them, our daughter is far the more intelligent than the boys. She has has the potential to become a global leader. She knows how to articulate her opinion and debates with her brothers when necessary, and in turn, they respect her. Yes she is the little girl in the family, and she likes to cuddle, shop and do creative stuff but she also knows that we, as parents, encourage her to stand up against other people who want to take her down, both boys and girls.
My concern is the peer pressure from other girls. Girls who grow up with the mindset that boys and girls can't do the same things and that girls should behave in a certain way to get what they want. When she wants to fit in and be friends with her team mates and school friends, she responds to the pressure to adjust her behaviour. It breaks my heart to see, because I know this is how it starts. And it will not end. Even as an adult, as a mother, as a co-worker and as an entrepreneur I feel this peer pressure. Other mothers in the school yard with opinions about motherhood, colleagues in the workplace influencing what one another wears and dictating how to behave, and even voicing opinions on the way I run my business.
Men and women grow up with inherited beliefs about gender, race and sexual preferences and it is hard to change that belief system. But it's not impossible. Take time to reflect on your own values regarding gender and decide if it something you want your children to share. Perpetuating belief systems starts with our little ones and filters upwards and we have to be honest with ourselves regarding our opinions on women and their roles in society.
Today, I will celebrate IWD, for all the girls, women and baby girls who will be born in the future. Because, although I believe in diversity of skills and experiences over the focus on gender, race of sexual preference, a huge part of the world still makes decisions based on gender. Even here in the Netherlands, a country which prides itself on its forward thinking.
This morning my children wanted to know why we have an International Women's Day, and when we will celebrate International Men's day. Good point, they need to know exactly why. It's not about buying new clothes with a discount.


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Receiving the price from State Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (left) and State Councilor Barbara Schwarz (right).
Group picture: city councilor Maria-Theresia Eder, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Sandra Siegert, Barbara Schwarz, and Lisa Cichocki.
Article in "Die Presse" about "Nerven in der Netzhaut" (in German)
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Interview in "meinbezirk.at" about the role of women in Klosterneuburg.
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Kronen Zeitung published an article about my group's work in their series "Krone der Wissenschaft": "Neue Verbindungen – ein zwölfköpfiges Team untersucht spezielle Immun- und Nervenzellen im Gehirn" – to be found on page 27 of the print version
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Spyro 2: Season of Flame (o più semplicemente Spyro: Season of Flame) è un videogioco a piattaforme per Game Boy Advance della serie Spyro the Dragon, sviluppato da Digital Eclipse e pubblicato da Universal Interactive Studios. È stato pubblicato in Nord America il 25 settembre e in Europa il 3 ottobre 2002. A differenza dell'originale, non è stato commercializzato in Giappone.

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Dopo gli eventi di Spyro: Season of Ice, Spyro, Sparx, Bianca e Hunter tornano dalle vacanze. Tuttavia, al ritorno, scoprono che, incredibilmente, la temperatura nel Regno dei Draghi si è notevolmente abbassata, e come se non bastasse, il potere dei draghi di sputare fiamme è stato misteriosamente sostituito con un soffio di gelo. Ciò, a causa del fatto che qualcuno ha rubato le diverse lucciole che permettono di sputare fuoco, probabilmente Ripto.

Spyro si ritrova quindi un'altra volta costretto a partire per un lungo viaggio che lo porterà a recuperare gli oggetti rubati. Ma contro di lui ci saranno tutti gli scagnozzi del mago malvagio e i suoi due bracci destri, Crush e Gulp, oltre a Ripto stesso.

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Q: java.lang.VerifyError when running main class in Eclipse I am working with AspectJ and was more or less forced to install Eclipse (since I usually use NetBeans). Have installed the AspectJ plugin and created an AspectJ project, but now that I try to run the program I get this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: Expecting a stackmap frame at branch target 140 in method Notepad.<init>()V at offset 131
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(Unknown Source)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)

I am completely clueless as to what I have to do. I have a Notepad class that has the main method and then an additional aspectj class.  for some reason I could run the the program before, but then I must have changed something that has to do with the environment or source etc. The program was runnable until I made some changes in the .aj aspect and saved it.
Any tips on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated as I am becoming increasingly frustrated with all the issues that keep on coming up for me trying to use AspectJ and Eclipse.
Thanks

A: It's hard to know what's going on without seeing the program you wrote, but I can suggest a few things:

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*Are you using Java 7 to run or compile your Java code?  AspectJ on top of Java 7 is relatively new and requires a snapshot build of AspectJ.

*Can you get your application to compile and run on the command line?

*This could be a genuine bug in the compiler.  In which case you could post on the AspectJ mailing list or raise a bug at eclipse.org.  Both of which are closely monitored.

The fact that you see a verify error leads me to believe that this is #1.  However, a project zip would be required to give you any definitive answer.

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Chinese Firm With Links To Lotus, Aston Martin Plans Electric Supercar
Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 26, 2015 Comment Now!
Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has confirmed plans to launch a new Roadster in 2019, and one of the car's potential rivals may be from a new electric car company being put together in China. This new company is no fly-by-night startup, though. It's the brainchild of Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, the man behind tech giant Letv which is like a Chinese version of Netflix.
Letv recently made headlines in automotive circles due to a partnership with Aston Martin, which incidentally is planning its own high-performance electric car based on its stunning Rapide sedan. The partnership between Letv and Aston Martin is thought to center on connected technology, though it's likely the two will explore further areas of collaboration.
But Letv is linked with another British sports car brand, in this case Lotus. Letv's car division is being led by Tony Nie, one of the persons responsible for helping to introduce the Lotus brand to the Chinese market. He recently talked with the website Co.Design and revealed a number of details about Letv's automotive ambitions.
Nie has helped recruit around 600 staff to work for Letv's car division, with one third of the staff said to be located here in the United States. Many have been poached from established firms such as BMW, General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] and, of course, Tesla.
One of the division's first tasks will be to develop a high-end model called the Le Supercar, teaser sketches of which Letv released this week. If all goes to plan, the Le Supercar will make its debut—presumably as a concept—at the 2016 Beijing Auto Show next April and go on sale within the next three years.
The powertrain will be Letv's own design, including the motor, battery and inverter technology. And considering it is being developed by a tech firm, there should be plenty of connectivity technologies in the cabin including custom apps. There will, perhaps, even be some self-driving elements.
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If tempered glass and RGB lighting can be said to be two of the main trends in PC cases from the last few years, it's fair to say that the Corsair Crystal Series is a family that embraces these trends fully. The new 680X appears to be no different in that regard, rocking as it does a trio of tempered glass side panels and three LL120 RGB front intake fans.
The tempered glass panels cover the roof, front, and side of the main chamber of this dual-chamber chassis, giving you a great view of the core hardware inside. While the thickness and weight of this gives the 680X decent build quality, the use of plastic for the inner parts of both the front and roof panels detracts from it, especially when the £220 price tag is considered. The feet give the case plenty of clearance at least, and rubber on the feet will keep the thing planted.
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The three RGB fans come pre-connected on the inside to the included Lightning Node Pro, which can be used via the iCUE software to control the lighting colours and effects. The chassis does not include any integrated lighting or LED strips of its own.
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The downside to allowing more air in is the potential for allowing more dust in. As such, a magnetic dust filter is supplied for the roof, and the front panel has one integrated behind the glass as well. You also get a flexible magnetic dust filter on the right side, which is where the PSU draws in air, and this is neatly fitted flush to the case.
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#define UART_FLOW_DELAY              0x38
#define UART_TX_FIFO_TRIGGER_LEVEL   0x44

#define UART_INTRPT_MASK_TXEMPTY     (1U << 3)
#define UART_CHANNEL_STS_TXEMPTY     (1U << 3)

#define UART_REG(x) ((volatile uint32_t *)(UART_PPTR + (x)))

#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_BUILD) || defined(CONFIG_PRINTING)
void
putDebugChar(unsigned char c)
{
    while (!(*UART_REG(UART_CHANNEL_STS) & UART_CHANNEL_STS_TXEMPTY));
    *UART_REG(UART_TX_RX_FIFO) = c;
}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUILD
unsigned char
getDebugChar(void)
{
    while (!(*UART_REG(UART_CHANNEL_STS) & BIT(UART_CHANNEL_STS_TXEMPTY)));
    return *UART_REG(UART_TX_RX_FIFO);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_BUILD */

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